ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,181, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Congestion-aware traffic management using historical load data and real-time cell mapping" was invented by Emir Halepovic (Somerset, N.J.) and Vijay Gopalakrishnan (Edison, 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 obtains information from a network element of a communication network that includes cells each associated with user equipment devices (UEs); the information includes mapping data for each of the cells and the UEs associated with the respective cells,...