ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,157, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to JIO PLATFORMS Ltd. (Ahmedabad, India).

"System and design method of a 5G NR combined centralized and distributed unit" was invented by Narender Kumar (South Delhi, India), Shakti Singh (Gurgaon, India), Amrish Bansal (Navi Mumbai, India), Brijesh Shah (Navi Mumbai, India), Bajinder Pal Singh (Janakpuri, India) and Selvakumar Ganesan (Tirupur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an efficient hardware architecture for an ORAN compliant internal structure of a gnodeB (gNodeB) comprising of a combined centralized unit and a distributed unit (CCDU) for a 5G basement a...