US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 19 for "Enhanced block floating point compression for open radio access network fronthaul" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,752, issued on May 19, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Enhanced block floating point compression for open radio access network fronthaul" was invented by Kanchan Kumar Gorain (Somerset, N.J.), Saurabh Shandilya (New Delhi) and Raja Sekhar Bachu (Kendall Park, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributing unit (DU) signals a maximum IQ data bitwidth for downlink communication associated with a section identifier (ID) to a radio unit (RU). The DU signals a bitwidth parameter to the RU for the downlink communication per a physical resource block (PRB). The DU transmits and the RU receives the downlink communication based...