ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,958, issued on July 21, was assigned to Mavenir Systems Inc. (Richardson, Texas).

"Method and apparatus for programmable and customized intelligence for traffic steering in 5G networks using open ran architectures" was invented by Rajarajan Sivaraj (Plano, Texas), Rahul Soundrarajan (Bengaluru, India), Pankaj Kenjale (Plano, Texas), Ankith Gujar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Tarunjeet Singh (New Delhi) and Wasi Asghar (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of optimizing traffic steering (TS) radio resource management (RRM) decisions for handover of individual user equipment (UE) in Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) includes...