ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,960, issued on March 24, was assigned to Radisys Corp. (Hillsboro, Ore.).

"Energy efficiency driven network functions in converged broadband access" was invented by Rajendra Prasad Kodaypak (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Ganesh Shenbagaraman (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A converged broadband access service controller (CBASC) provides for energy efficiency monitoring in a 5G fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) network including wireless and wireline convergence (WWC). The CBASC receives energy efficiency metrics via APIs with an SMO, a PCMS, a DCMS, and an ACMS; determines composite 5G broadband access network energy consumption b...