ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,642, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to LITE-ON TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Base station management device and method" was invented by Chih-Wei Su (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chen-chieh Tsai (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station management device is provided in the invention. The base station management device includes a Non-Real Time (Non-RT) Radio-Access-Network Intelligent Controller (RIC) and a management device. The Non-RT RIC communicates with applications through a first communication interface. The management device manages a plurality of base stations, communicates with the Non-RT RIC through a secon...