ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,789, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Equipment swap detection for 5G wireless network" was invented by Pradipbhai Kher (Lewis Center, Ohio) and Christopher Ivin (Powell, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and automated processes are described to provide detection of incorrectly connected equipment at one or more cell sites, such as those used to implement a 5G or other mobile network. Systems and automated processes may retrieve a serial number and MAC address from one or more RUs at a cell site, may retrieve interface information from a cell site router to which the one or m...