ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,471, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Parallel Wireless Inc. (Nashua, N.H.).

"4G-5G open RAN user plane path" was invented by Amit Ghadge (Pune, India), Vivek Pise (Pune, India), Mukesh Singhal (Pune, India) and Praneet Chivate (Nahua, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are presented for providing a 4G-5G Open RAN User Plane Path. In one embodiment a method includes keeping, by a Distributed Unit (DU)/Centralized Unit (CU)-User Plane (UP), a list of local switch enabled subscribers; receiving an uplink data packet for a local switch enabled subscriber from a source device; comparing, by the DU/CU-UP, if a desti...