Cohere Technologies has been an often-heard name throughout the stages of defining 5G standards and use cases, most recently because of new trials with Deutsche Telekom. Last month, the RAN start-up announced new functionality for its key technologies – Massive MIMO scheduler and Delay-Doppler channel software. It also said it had received new funding (without specifying how much), and said its offering would be launched commercially later this year. CEO Ray Dolan, who previously headed up mobile broadband chip start-up Flarion as well as Sonus Networks, may be hoping he can repeat Flarion’s achievement of attracting a high-priced acquisition from Qualcomm – now that the mobile chip giant is moving back into network infrastructure chips. Flarion contributed highly valuable patents…