US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on July 29 for "Detection of failures in virtualized radio access networks" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,341, issued on July 29, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Detection of failures in virtualized radio access networks" was invented by Daehyeok Kim (Redmond, Wash.) and Anuj Kalia (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data traffic is communicated between a radio unit (RU) of a cellular network and a virtualized radio access network (vRAN) instance of a vRAN. In response to determining that the vRAN instance has failed to communicate a downlink fronthaul packet to the RU within a threshold timeout interval, a failure notification is sent to a PHY layer failure response function. The failure t...