ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,062, issued on April 22, was assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo).
"O-RU and management method" was invented by Jin Nakazato (Tokyo), Saki Tanaka (Tokyo) and Haruka Horiuchi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Open Radio Access Network Radio Unit (O-RU) including a Radio Frequency (RF) unit and a baseband unit, wherein: the baseband unit includes two or more digital signal processing units; the two or more digital signal processing units are configured to execute digital signal processing with respectively defined higher-level units; and the baseband unit is configured so as to be able to make some of the two or more digital s...