ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,417, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Mavenir US Inc. (Richardson, Texas).

"Systems and methods for enabling synchronization signal block (SSB) optimization for O-RAN-based radio access networks" was invented by Atanu Guchhait (Bangalore, India), Wessam Afifi Ahmed (Plano, Texas) and Young-Han Nam (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of optimizing synchronization signal block (SSB) beam configuration for 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) New Radio (NR) network includes: using at least one of an artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) engine in one of service management and orchestration (SMO)...