ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,252, issued on June 16, was assigned to RAKUTEN SYMPHONY INC. (Tokyo).

"System and method for delay measurement in fronthaul network using hardware timestamping" was invented by Ramana Reddy Machireddy (Bangalore, India), Raghunath Hariharan (Tewksbury, Mass.) and Ronak Bharatkumar Lalwala (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) includes: an O-RAN Radio Unit (O-RU) configured to transmit radio signals to user equipment; an O-RAN Distributed Unit (O-DU) configured to perform baseband processing; and a fronthaul network, wherein the O-RU and the O-DU are nodes of the fronthaul network, and ...