US Patent Issued to NEC on April 15 for "Autonomous virtual radio access network control" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,452, issued on April 15, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Autonomous virtual radio access network control" was invented by Andres Garcia-Saavedra (Heidelberg, Germany) and Xavier Costa-Perez (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing radio and computing resources of a virtualized radio access network (vRAN) includes a number of virtualized radio access points (vRAPs) that share a common pool of central processing units (CPUs). The method includes dividing, per vRAP, an L1 layer processing pipeline into at least one main processing pipeline and into a number of subordinate processing pipelines, and coo...