US Patent Issued to RAKUTEN MOBILE, RAKUTEN SYMPHONY on Jan. 20 for "Real-time RIC architecture for open RAN networks" (American, Japanese, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,193, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo) and RAKUTEN SYMPHONY INC. (Tokyo).

"Real-time RIC architecture for open RAN networks" was invented by Antonio Forenza (San Fernando, Calif.), Nagendra Bykampadi (Bangalore, India) and Awn Muhammad (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing real-time services and functions in an Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) architecture, includes: a first physical node comprising at least one first processor configured to execute instructions to implement an O-RAN centralized unit (O-CU); at least one second physical node comprising at least one second...