ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,947, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to MAVENIR SYSTEMS INC. (Richardson, Texas).

"System and method to configure O-RAN fronthaul to support 2nd-generation (2G), 3rd-generation (3G) and NB-IOT" was invented by RadhaKrishna Arvapally (Bangalore, India), Atanu Guchhait (Bangalore, India), Somashekar Mudaraddi (Bangalore, India), Brijesh Unnikrishnan (Bangalore, India), Wessam Afifi Ahmed (Plano, Texas) and Neil Philip Piercy (Royston, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided, an open radio access network distributed unit (O-DU) having an electronic module that performs an FS-8 Radio Access Technology (RAT) functio...