ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,562, issued on March 11, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Systems and methods for configuring and connecting unplanned small cells" was invented by Julio Cesar Costa (Tampa, Fla.), Muralidhar Reddy Malreddy (Overland Park, Kan.), Shilpa Kowdley Srinivas (Brambleton, Va.) and Bhanu Prakash Voruganti (Olathe, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for facilitating the placement of a small cell, wherein at least one of a first set of parameters is determined at each of a first and a second location, at least one of a second set of parameters is determined at each of the firs...