US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 17 for "Distributed unit architecture for performing handover between distributed units in a VRAN" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,993, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Distributed unit architecture for performing handover between distributed units in a VRAN" was invented by Anuj Kalia (San Francisco) and Junzhi Gong (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for increasing resiliency in distributed units of a virtual radio access network (vRAN) of a telecommunications network (e.g., a 5G telecommunications network), particularly when performing a planned handover operation between the distributed units. The examples descr...