ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,368, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"O-RAN fronthaul analyzer with integrated impairment generator" was invented by Reza Vaez-Ghaemi (Potomac, Md.), Wei Chen (Potomac, Md.), Kenneth Trudgeon (Victoria, Canada) and David Fenstermacher (Mount Airy, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to examples, an O-RAN FHA may include a packet analyzer including hardware, an impairment generator, and a Parser to receive packet traffic flows outputted by an O-DU) and/or an O-RU. The Parser may parse packets in the received packet traffic flows, determine which of the received packet traffic flows a...