ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,996, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Cell outage compensation optimization" was invented by Raymond E. Reeves (Orlando, Fla.) and Pablo Lopez (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and devices are provided for cell outage compensation optimization. Methods include monitoring, by a cell outage compensation analyzer, events between wireless devices and an access node deploying a cell within a radio access network. The method additionally includes determining relevant events indicative of a cell outage from the monitored events and forwarding forwarding the r...