ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,872, issued on June 2, was assigned to Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson, Texas).

"Systems and methods for machine learning based access class barring" was invented by Harsha Hegde (Buffalo Grove, Ill.) and Minyan Shi (Bolton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for ML based ACB are provided herein. In an example, a system includes BBU(s), RU(s) communicatively coupled to the BBU(s), and antenna(s) communicatively coupled to the RU(s). Each respective RU of the RU(s) is communicatively coupled to a respective subset of the antenna(s). The BBU(s), the RU(s), and the antenna(s) are configured to implement a ...