ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,800, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson, Texas).

"Real time physical layer processing in distributed units" was invented by Suresh N. Sriram (Bangalore, India) and Arthur J. Barabell (Sudbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes methods and apparatus for real-time physical layer processing in distributed units (DU). A downlink data processing method includes receiving a downlink transport block at the physical layer and generating a plurality of sub-transport blocks mapped to a plurality of symbols by processing the received transport block. The method furthe...