ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,365, issued on July 14, was assigned to Mavenir Systems Inc. (Richardson, Texas).

"System and methods for downlink physical resource blocks blanking and related operations in the cellular systems operating in shared spectrum" was invented by Manoharan Ramalingam (Bengaluru, India) and Sunil Kaimalettu (Hebbal Kempapura, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and Methods for configuring shared spectrum cellular systems with Physical Resource Block Blanking and related operations for the control and data channels and reference signals within the carrier channel bandwidth. The systems are configured for protection in the carrier ba...