ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,132, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson, Texas).

"Techniques for determining a resistance of electrical conductors providing electrical power to a radio" was invented by Rajiv Koshy (Murphy, Texas), David Barkman Jr. (Otego, N.Y.) and Willis James (Wylie, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for automatically determining when voltage and current levels occur when a DC input of a radio is drawing substantially constant power through electrical conductors from a DC voltage converter. Such voltage and current level occurring when such power draw is substantially constant ca...