US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 14 for "Virtualized radio access network (vRAN) decoding as a service" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,116, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Virtualized radio access network (vRAN) decoding as a service" was invented by Xenofon Foukas (Cambridge, Great Britain), Jincao Zhu (Salt Lake City) and Bozidar Radunovic (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The systems and methods relate to virtual radio access networks (vRANs). The systems and methods may offload a signal processing task of a physical layer from a vRAN server located at the far edge of a network nearby a base station to a remote location further away from the base station. The remote location may inclu...