ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,974, issued on May 19, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Distributed unit scheduling for custom signal traffic" was invented by Tommy Ivarsson (Ottawa), Sewvanda Don (Ottawa), Vikas Arora (Ottawa), John Bradley Deforge (Chelsea, Canada), Thomas Leonard Trevor Plestid (Chelsea, Canada), Michael Roger (Nepean, Canada), Nanping Ding (Ottawa) and Haobo Xing (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described technology is generally directed towards scheduling, by a distributed unit, the injection of custom traffic (signals/data) into a radio unit communications path. The custom traffic can be used to improve the perf...