US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on Jan. 13 for "Radio network automation using unmanned aerial vehicles" (Georgia, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,660, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Radio network automation using unmanned aerial vehicles" was invented by Zhi Cui (Sugar Hill, Ga.) and Xiaowen Mang (Morganville, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method in which a processing system determines a location of a failure in a communication network and a cause of the failure. If the failure cannot be resolved using a recovery feature of the network, the processing system identifies a recovery procedure for resolving the failure, and dispatches an automated vehicle to the fail...