US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on June 23 for "Scaling network capability using baseband unit pooling in fifth generation networks and beyond" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,307, issued on June 23, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Scaling network capability using baseband unit pooling in fifth generation networks and beyond" was invented by Minsung Jang (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Aleksandr Zelezniak (Morganville, N.J.) and Kaustubh Joshi (Short Hills, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology is directed towards load balancing baseband units in a communications network. A baseband physical layer 1 unit's functions are disaggregated into Layer 1 (L1) distributed units and radio units, instead of deploying full-fledged baseband units at a service' provider's servic...