ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,397, issued on June 23, was assigned to Parallel Wireless Inc. (Nashua, N.H.).

"Paging optimization using RIC/ORAN in 5G and 4G systems" was invented by Pankaj Bunde (Pune, India), Praveen Jain (Pune, India) and Lakhan Sharma (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method is disclosed for providing paging optimization using Radio Access Network (RAN) Intelligent Controller (RIC)/OpenRAN (ORAN) in 5G and 4G Systems. The method comprising the RIC using a user equipment (UE) context which is updated on UE movement and calculates the UEs current location. Using this paging is sent in stages where in the first sta...