ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,207, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Automated data backfilling for network data processing" was invented by Vikas Ranjan (Bellevue, Wash.) and Raymond Wu (Newcastle, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of initiating a KPI backfill operation for a cellular network based on detecting a network data anomaly, where the method includes receiving, by an anomaly detection and backfill engine (ADBE) executed by a computing device, a data quality metric that is based on a KPI of the cellular network; detecting, by the ADBE, the network data anomaly based on the data quality metric...