ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,223, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo).

"Switching of O-RU to a plurality of power saving modes" was invented by Awn Muhammad (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio access network control apparatus that controls O-RAN including O-RU as radio unit, has at least one processor that performs: by an energy saving information notification unit, causing the O-RU to notify energy saving information concerning energy saving mode that the O-RU can support. The at least one processor that performs: by an energy saving mode switching unit, switching the O-RU to an energy saving mode that the O-RU can support; ...