ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,785, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo).

"Provision of virtual infrastructure information through R1 interface" was invented by Pankaj Shete (Tokyo) and Awn Muhammad (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 virtual infrastructure information acquisition unit, acquiring virtual infrastructure information from a virtual infrastructure that virtually manages a set of a plurality of radio access network nodes; and by a virtual infrastructure information provision unit, providing the virtual infrastructure information to the rA...