US Patent Issued to DISH Wireless on Oct. 20 for "Synchronization management in lower-layer split radio access networks" (Virginia, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,185, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Littleton, Colo.).

"Synchronization management in lower-layer split radio access networks" was invented by Premchand Chandran (Ashburn, Va.), Gurpreet Sohi (Parker, Colo.) and Julio Armenta (Aldie, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for synchronizing components of a Lower-Layer Split Radio Access Network (RAN) are provided. In one example, a RAN includes a first Distributed Unit (DU) having: a containerized Cell Site Router (cCSR) that routes user data, control data, or both between the first DU, Radio Units (RUs) of the RAN; and a timing Network Interface Card (NI...