ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,611, issued on June 10.

"Techniques for performing minimization of drive test (MDT)" was invented by Huichun Liu (Beijing), Peng Cheng (Beijing), Xipeng Zhu (San Diego), Gavin Bernard Horn (La Jolla, Calif.) and Ozcan Ozturk (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to methods and apparatus for performing minimization of drive test (MDT) operations. For example, certain aspects provide a method for wireless communication. The method generally includes receiving, at a radio access network (RAN), a measurement configuration to start a trace of a user-equipment (UE), determining...