ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,083, issued on July 29, was assigned to RAKUTEN SYMPHONY INC. (Tokyo).

"Method and apparatus for statistical multiplexing for fronthaul bandwidth in open random access networks" was invented by Siddhant Gupta (Bangalore, India) and Ronak Lalwala (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed in an O-DU includes dividing a transmission time unit (TTI) into a plurality of symbol units, the TTI corresponding to a permitted time for transmission of data from the O-DU to the O-RU via the fronthaul link. The method further includes allocating a first packet of a first type to a first symbol unit. The method further inc...