ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,912, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta), AT&T Intellectual Property II LP (Atlanta), AT&T Technical Services Co. Inc. (Vienna, Va.) and AT&T Mobility II LLC (Atlanta).

"Estimating signal propagation based on sampling by user equipment in idle mode" was invented by Thomas Henderson (Alpharetta, Ga.), Kurt Huber (Ashburn, Va.), Daniel Vivanco (Ashburn, Va.) and Julius Fodje (Alpharetta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technologies described herein are generally directed to mapping signal propagation using idle mode user equipment in a fifth generation (5G) network or other next generatio...