ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,236, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson, Texas).

"Reduced overhead loop back messaging (LBM) for packet-based fronthaul interface" was invented by Suresh N. Sriram (Bangalore, India), Sudarshana Varadappa (Bangalore, India), Yogesh C.S (Bengaluru, India), Emil Mathew Kadavil (Bangalore, India) and Syamala Saripalli (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment is directed to a radio access network (RAN) comprising a distributed unit (DU) and one or more radio units (RUs) coupled to the DU over a fronthaul network. The RAN is configured to verify and monitor the transport con...