ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,840, issued on July 29, was assigned to Radisys Corp. (Hillsboro, Ore.).

"Converged broadband access service controller (CBASC) for 5G networks" was invented by Rajendra Prasad Kodaypak (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Ganesh Shenbagaraman (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A converged broadband access service controller (CBASC) for a 5G network provides for management of a passive optical network (PON) midhaul transport network path and a coaxial cable midhaul transport network path by receiving from RAN intelligent controller (RIC) or a network management system (NMS) a trigger for selecting a midhaul transport network path. The CB...