ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,502, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Control plane processing of downlink precoding in an open radio access network" was invented by Orod Raeesi (Espoo, Finland), Deepak Agarwal (San Diego), Hossein Asgharimoghaddam (Espoo, Finland), Abhishek Saurabh Sachidanand Sinha (San Diego) and Kalyan Kuppuswamy (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Open Radio Access Network Category B radio unit (O-RU) of a wireless network associates, for a first extended antenna carrier identifier (eAxC_Id) corresponding to a layer 0 precoding layer identifier (layerID), the first eAxC_Id with one or more second eAxC_Ids...