ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,042, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).
"Cell-less wireless network" was invented by Lei Song (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Edward Diaz (Bridgewater, N.J.), Jin Yang (Orinda, Calif.), Zheng Zhao (Plainsboro, N.J.) and Mamadou Mamoune Niang (Keller, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio access network (RAN) may comprise at least one transmission-reception point (TRP) configured to provide wireless connections to one or more User Equipment devices (UEs) in an area. The area is not predefined by a cell boundary. The RAN may be configured to: broadcast Scheduling and Synchronizatio...