ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,499, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Mavenir Systems Inc. (Richardson, Texas).

"Method to extend ORAN fronthaul specifications to support NBIOT" was invented by Radhakrishna Arvapally (Bangalore, India), Brijesh Unnikrishnan (Bangalore, India), Charles Santhosam Lourdu Raja (Bangalore, India), Pankaj Kumar (New Delhi) and Nithin Kumar (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for enabling Narrowband Internet of Things (NBIOT) transport over fronthaul (FH) interface between distributed unit (DU) and radio unit (RU) for at least one of 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network and 5G New Radio (NR) network, wh...