US Patent Issued to Outdoor Wireless Networks on Sept. 2 for "Avoiding contention between synchronization packets and in-phase and quadrature (IQ) packets communicated over fronthaul of a radio access network" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,129, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson, Texas).

"Avoiding contention between synchronization packets and in-phase and quadrature (IQ) packets communicated over fronthaul of a radio access network" was invented by Stuart D. Sandberg (Acton, Mass.) and Irfaan Ahamed Salahuddeen (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for avoiding contention between synchronization packets (for example, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1588 Precision Time Protocol (PTP) synchronization packets) and in-phase and quadrature (IQ) packets communicated over a fro...