ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,274, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Alleviating cell congestion in wireless networks" was invented by Huimin Xu (Lexington, Mass.), Charles Crisler (Windham, N.H.), John Elias Maroun (Marlborough, Mass.), Kaykhosrow Jahanian Parsi (Reading, Mass.), Michael Perron (Millbury, Mass.) and Piotr Galecki (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for alleviating congestion of data traffic in a wireless network in a cell site. The methods determine congestion levels for respective data connections from mobile computing devices to a network throu...