ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,038, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Virtualized radio access point, VRAP, and method of operating the same" was invented by Andres Garcia-Saavedra (Heidelberg, Germany), Xavier Costa-Perez (Heidelberg, Germany), Marco Gramaglia (Leganes, Spain) and Albert Banchs (Leganes, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a virtualized radio access point (vRAP) includes: providing a digital signal processor (DSP) pipeline including a number of DSP workers for execution of a plurality of threads of a physical layer (PHY) of the vRAP, wherein a thread of the plurality of threads includes a sequence of p...