US Patent Issued to Northeastern University on Dec. 2 for "Open RAN adapter for use of open RAN technologies on legacy RAN systems" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,690, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Northeastern University (Boston).

"Open RAN adapter for use of open RAN technologies on legacy RAN systems" was invented by Salvatore D'Oro (Brookline, Mass.), Leonardo Bonati (Boston), Michele Polese (Cambridge, Mass.) and Tommaso Melodia (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are open radio access network (Open RAN) adapters for using non-open RAN nodes in a wireless network having Open RAN infrastructure, the Open RAN adapters including one or more control application programming interfaces (Control APIs) for controlling the non-open RAN nodes, one or more Data Capture A...