ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,234, issued on March 18, was assigned to DISH WIRELESS LLC (Englewood, Colo.).
"Tower downtime prediction" was invented by Jon William Freeman Crofford (Denver).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described herein for predicting tower downtimes in a cellular or wireless network and taking preemptive measures relative to the predicted downtime. One or more towers in a cellular network are selected to predict whether they are or are about to experience downtime. A prediction model trained to predict downtimes of towers sharing a characteristic with the one or more selected towers. Current information associated with ...