ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,189, issued on June 24, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Cellular network indoor traffic auto-detection" was invented by Eugene Gomes (Plano, Texas), Xin Li (Allen, Texas) and Mahmood Osorio (Rockwall, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system and network node for detecting indoor traffic of a wireless communications network by obtaining data associated with an operation of a cell of the wireless communication network and determining a quality grading and coverage grading for the cell from the obtained data. The combined quality and coverage grading results are assessed to determine an ...