USPTO granted Patent US12591437B2 to Rakuten Symphony, Inc. on March 31, 2026, covering methods for zero touch provisioning of bare metal servers to run radio access network (RAN) software. The patent describes delivering a network boot program to a bare metal server in a preboot execution environment, registering the server with a data center automation platform, and instantiating a RAN application on the server. The patent contains 19 claims and has CPC classifications in H04L (networking) and G06F (computing) categories.

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