US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Dec. 30 for "Optimization of guard bands in multi-numerology 5G networks" (Washington, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,728, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Optimization of guard bands in multi-numerology 5G networks" was invented by Manikanta Kotaru (Kenmore, Wash.), Arjun Varman Balasingam (Cambridge, Mass.) and Paramvir Bahl (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present optimization of guard bands repurposes some guard band spectrum for data transmission in a 5G network. This approach takes spectrum that is otherwise "wasted" for guard bands to enable overall spectrum utilization to be increased. To mitigate effects of inter-numerology interference (INI) with narrower guard band...