ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,517, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to RAKUTEN SYMPHONY INC. (Tokyo).

"Enabling communication in NGDU of O-RAN" was invented by Naga Krishna Prasad Jampala (Bangalore, India), Sukesh Thotengara (Bangalore, India) and Biswajit Panigrahi (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments includes a NGDU for enabling communication in an O-RAN. The NGDU includes a RIM M-plane manager comprising a M-plane model, multiple DUs connected to the RIM M-plane manager and communicating with the RIM M-plane manager over a NETCONF interface and multiple RUs connected to the RIM M-plane manager and communicating with the RIM M-plane mana...