ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,886, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson, Texas).

"Open radio access network with unified remote units supporting multiple functional splits, multiple wireless interface protocols, multiple generations of radio access technology, and multiple radio frequency bands" was invented by Alfons Dussmann (Gansheim, Germany), Joerg Stefanik (Donauworth, Germany), Patrick Braun (Munningen, Germany), Daniel Schwab (Gersthofen, Germany), Van Erick Hanson (Forest, Va.), Suresh N. Sriram (Bangalore, India), Thomas Kummetz (Bayern, Germany) and Dean Zavadsky (Shakopee, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "...