ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,736, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for XR-aware radio scheduling" was invented by Vishwanath Ramamurthi (San Ramon, Calif.), Arda Aksu (Lafayette, Calif.) and Wei David Huang (Danville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein provide extended reality (XR)-aware scheduling in a radio access network (RAN). A RAN device receives downlink (DL) metadata for downlink packets in an extended reality (XR) session and uplink (UL) metadata for uplink packets in the XR session. The RAN device selects a scheduling discipline for t...