ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,798, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Radio exposure function for telecommunications networks" was invented by Marouane Balmakhtar (Fairfax, Va.) and Lyle Walter Paczkowski (Mission Hills, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A programmable radio exposure function switches between real-time and near-real-time modes of operation for a radio access network (RAN) intelligent controller of a telecommunications system. An application programming interface is exposed by the radio exposure function and performs radio resource management for the telecommunications system. The application programming i...