ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,988, issued on July 1, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Methods and systems for providing autonomous wireless coverage" was invented by Owen Christens-Barry (Castle Rock, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique is directed to methods and systems for providing autonomous wireless coverage. In some implementations, the autonomous wireless coverage providing machine (e.g., a mobile wireless tower) can move to various locations to optimize coverage, connectivity, and/or quality. The mobile wireless tower can collect environment data of a location and determine the terrain and wireless devices requesting cove...