ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,692, issued on May 20, was assigned to Elisa Oyj (Helsinki).

"Energy saving management in communication networks" was invented by Simon Holmbacka (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method of energy saving management for a source cell in a communication network. The method includes obtaining performance data of the source cell and a plurality of neighbor cells; determining and feeding input variable values to an energy saving management function based on the performance data and network topology of the communication network, wherein the input variables comprise variables representative of: 1) Overlap betwe...