ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,839, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to RAKUTEN SYMPHONY INC. (Tokyo).

"Determining authentication status information of an O-RAN radio unit" was invented by Paromita Chintan Shah (Karnataka, India), Nagendra Shridhar Bykampadi (Karnataka, India) and Krishna Pramod Adharapurapu (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are features for determining authentication status information of an Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) Radio Unit (O-RU). According to embodiments, an O-RU controller may be configured to: obtain a Media Access Control (MAC) address of an O-RU; determine, based on the MAC address of the O-RU, an authent...