US Patent Issued to Parallel Wireless on Sept. 29 for "vRAN with PCIe fronthaul" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,714, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Parallel Wireless Inc. (Nashua, N.H.).

"vRAN with PCIe fronthaul" was invented by Ofir Ben Ari Katzav (Zur Itshak, Israel), David Johnston (Westford, Mass.) and Steven Paul Papa (Windham, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and computer software are disclosed for fronthaul. In one embodiment a method is disclosed, comprising: providing a virtual Radio Access Network (vRAN) having a centralized unit (CU) and a distributed unit (DU); and interconnecting the CU and DU over an Input/Output (I/O) bus using Peripheral Component Interconnect-Express (PCIe); wherein the CU and the DU...