ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,318, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for removing E2 interface-relevant information in radio access network" was invented by Jiwoong Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Youngsung Kho (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a near-Real Time (RT) Radio Access Network (RAN) Intelligent Controller (RIC) is provided. The method includes receiving, from an E2 node, an E2 removal request message for removing a connection between the near-RT RIC and the E2 node through an E2 interface, and transmitting, to the E2 node, an E2 remov...