ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,352, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Elisa Oyj (Helsinki).

"Computer implemented method for controlling a communications network" was invented by Karri Sunila (Helsinki) and Vili Kilpelainen (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for controlling a communications network. The method includes obtaining, from the network, cell identifiers, remote electrical tilt, RET, equipment identifiers, link data comprising information about links between cells and RET equipment, and network configuration data, and, from a data storage, network planning data; finding a first cell, if any, missing a link to a RET eq...