ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,108, issued on April 7, was assigned to RAKUTEN SYMPHONY INC. (Tokyo).

"Method and system of collecting topology and inventory data in open radio access network" was invented by Kexuan Sun (Surrey, Great Britain) and Ravi Chamarty (Summit, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of collecting, creating or updating topology and inventory data for a network includes receiving a request through an interface of a service management and orchestrator (SMO), wherein the request contains instructions for topology and inventory information to be collected, created or updated. The method further includes transferring the request to a topo...