US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on April 14 for "Facilitation of radio access neighbor relationships for 5G or other next generation network" (Georgia, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,261, issued on April 14, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Facilitation of radio access neighbor relationships for 5G or other next generation network" was invented by Zhi Cui (Sugar Hill, Ga.), Hongyan Lei (Plano, Texas) and Paul Smith Jr. (Heath, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automatic neighbor relationships (ANR) can be implemented within a radio access network intelligent controller (RIC), which receives load information from network nodes and user equipment measurements from user equipment. The RIC can create and maintain real-time load information and leverage slicing knowledge of neighbor cell...