ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,308, issued on June 23, was assigned to RAKUTEN SYMPHONY INC. (Tokyo).

"Non-real-time RIC architecture supporting coordinated RAN and core information sharing and control" was invented by Antonio Forenza (San Mateo, Calif.), Ankur Chauhan (Bangalore, India) and Kexuan Sun (Surrey, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for policy/control implementation includes retrieving, by a non-real-time (NRT) radio access network (RAN) Intelligent Controller (RIC) from a core network external to the NRT RIC via a first external interface, first enrichment data corresponding to core network information, determining, by the NRT RIC,...