ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,887, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Englewood, Colo.).
"Preplanned site swap" was invented by Neil Nocete (Fairfax, Va.), Dilip Tandekar (Herndon, Va.), Gurpreet Sohi (Parker, Colo.) and Sourabh Gupta (Ashburn, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method that detects initiation of a triggering event associated with a coverage area having a plurality of macrosites. The system and method further activate an auxiliary power source at each of a predetermined number of selected macrosites, the selected macrosites being ones of the plurality of macrosites. A number of the plurality of macrosites is great...