ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,961, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC.

"Leveraging transport alarms to identify link redundancy failures" was invented by Jose A. Gonzalez (Maitland, Fla.), Brian D. Lushear (Winter Springs, Fla.) and Todd M. Szymanski (Winter Park, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of resolving cell site backhaul link redundancy failures in a communication system comprises receiving a plurality of alarms from a plurality of network elements (NEs) in the communication system, determining that the alarms include at least two alarms associated with a cell site, including a first alarm indicating that a path through a...