ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,804, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method of communication traffic prediction via continual learning with knowledge distillation, and an apparatus for the same" was invented by Hang Li (Montreal), Ju Wang (Brossard, Canada), Chengming Hu (Montreal), Xi Chen (Montreal), Xue Liu (Montreal), Seowoo Jang (Seoul, South Korea) and Gregory Lewis Dudek (Westmount, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server for predicting a future traffic load of a base station is provided. The server may obtain a first prediction model based on traffic data collected from the base station for a fi...