ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,332, issued on July 8, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Reducing network energy consumption using predictive analytics" was invented by Raymond E. Reeves (Orlando, Fla.) and Simon Youngs (Overland Park, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and system for reducing greenhouse gas emissions of a terrestrial wireless telecommunications network are disclosed. The system monitors a current energy consumption metric of the terrestrial network, predicts an energy consumption metric of the terrestrial network in a future time period based on at least one triggering event, and determines an available capacity metric o...