ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,513, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to DISH WIRELESS LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Event based network downtime determination" was invented by Jeremy Conyers (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Network downtime determination and reporting technologies are disclosed. An example method for determining downtime associated with a communications network includes detecting an event that triggers update of a downtime accumulation estimate associated with the communications network, and determining real-time status of a subset of cell sites that is potentially affected by the event. The example method also includes updating the downtime accum...