ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,824, issued on May 5, was assigned to MAVENIR NETWORKS INC. (Richardson, Texas).

"Method and apparatus for long term evolution operation in unlicensed and shared spectrum for cloud radio access networks" was invented by Wessam Afifi Ahmed (Plano, Texas), Sridhar Rajagopal (Plano, Texas), Ajay Nigam (Bengaluru, India), Hersh Vardhan Shukla (Bengaluru, India), Tarak Taranekar (Bangalore, India) and Ajit Ashok Joshi (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a system, method, and interfaces for Radio Access Networks and Cloud Radio Access Networks."

The patent was filed on Jan. 3, 2024, under Application No. 18/40...