ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,719, issued on May 5, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Conflict management in a shared O-RAN architecture" was invented by Mark Grayson (Berkshire, Great Britain) and Indermeet Singh Gandhi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are techniques to facilitate conflict management in a shared Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) architecture. In one instance, a method can be performed by a conflict manager of a near-real-time RAN intelligent controller of a shared RAN including radio unit (RU) nodes provided by a host operator. The method can include obtaining each of a requested radio unit ...