ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,856, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to RAKUTEN SYMPHONY INC. (Tokyo) and RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo).

"Sleep mode implementation by control-plane section type 4 messaging in a telecommunication network" was invented by Lingasamy Veluchamy (Karnataka, India) and Awn Muhammad (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes an O-DU configured to receive from a radio unit (O-RU), configuration capability information via management plane (M-Plane) command from the O-RU. The O-DU receives, from a higher layer network function, a request to reconfigure an antenna array. The O-DU determines a sleep mode type supported by the O-R...