ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,392, issued on March 17, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Access control in a RAN" was invented by Amit Singh (Woodside, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for implementing access controls in a RAN (radio access network) to limit access to base station components of the RAN by RAN applications. The method is performed at a RIC (RAN intelligent controller) that connects the RAN applications to the base station components. The method receives a set of access control data that specifies which RAN applications are allowed to access which base station components. From ...