ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,872, issued on July 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Radio access network node registration and discovery" was invented by Juan Zhang (Beijing), Gavin Bernard Horn (La Jolla, Calif.), Xipeng Zhu (San Diego), Shankar Krishnan (San Diego) and Rajeev Kumar (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. An access and mobility management function (AMF) may register a configuration of one or more RAN entities to a network repository function (NRF). The AMF may register information associated with a device with a UDM. A network data analytics function (NWDAF)...