ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,077, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo).

"Issuance of hardware acceleration policy in O-RAN" was invented by Pankaj Shete (Tokyo), Awn Muhammad (Tokyo), Kenichiro Aoyagi (Tokyo) and Koichiro Kitagawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio access network control apparatus has at least one processor that performs: by a hardware acceleration policy issuance unit in a Non-RT RIC (Non-Real Time RAN Intelligent Controller) of an O-RAN, issuing a hardware acceleration policy concerning hardware acceleration in a radio access network node managed virtually by a virtual infrastructure. The hardware acceleratio...