US Patent Issued to Outdoor Wireless Networks on March 18 for "Internal functional split in an O-RAN based massive MIMO radio unit and internal communication protocols" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,836, issued on March 18, was assigned to Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Claremont, N.C.).

"Internal functional split in an O-RAN based massive MIMO radio unit and internal communication protocols" was invented by Alessandro Sinicco (Monza, Italy), Simone Reverzani (Monza, Italy), Calogero Armao (Saronno, Italy) and Mario Fricchione (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Active antennas are provided. An active antenna includes a main processor that is configured to perform processing of packets from an O-RAN interface of the main processor to provide a plurality of data streams. The active antenna also includes a plurality of secondar...