ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,028, issued on July 29, was assigned to Elisa Oyj (Helsinki).
"Energy saving management for communication networks" was invented by Simon Holmbacka (Helsinki).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for energy savings management for cells of a sector or a base station of a communication network. The sector or base station has co-located cells that operate on different frequency bands. The method is performed by obtaining a default energy savings plan that calls for fully shutting down at least one of the cells for a first time period and provides a first amount of energy savings; evaluating energy savings achievab...