ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,376, issued on May 27, was assigned to RAKUTEN SYMPHONY INC. (Tokyo).

"System and method for auto-creation and assignment of TAC/TAL geography" was invented by Prithvi Raj Dhaka (Indore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of auditing tracking area code (TAC) assignments includes obtaining one or more tracking area code (TAC) assignments for one or more new evolved Node B (eNB) sites added to a RAN network in a geographic area; verifying a TAC threshold, where the TAC threshold corresponds with a predetermined number of eNBs per TAC; in response a TAC being below the TAC threshold, assigning a TAC ID of a corresponding neig...