US Patent Issued to Outdoor Wireless Networks on April 1 for "Systems and methods for providing a radio prompt access to shared spectrum" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,689, issued on April 1, was assigned to Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Claremont, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for providing a radio prompt access to shared spectrum" was invented by Khalid W. Al-Mufti (Sterling, Va.) and Ariful Hannan (Sterling, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for temporarily allocating a new radio controlled by a spectrum access system (SAS) a frequency spectrum in shared spectrum in which to transmit, and a maximum transmit power level. The temporary frequency spectrum and optionally maximum transmit power level may be sent to the new radio so that it can commence transmitting prior to a ...