ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,230, issued on March 25, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Methods, apparatus and computer-readable mediums relating to detection of sleeping cells in a cellular network" was invented by Selim Ickin (Stocksund, Sweden), Daniel Wilson (Jackson, N.J.), Lackis Eleftheriadis (Gavle, Sweden), Leonid Mokrushin (Uppsala, Sweden) and Ravi Kiran Kotty (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides methods, apparatus and machine-readable mediums for the detection of sleeping cells in a cellular network. A method of detecting a sleeping cell in a cellular communication network compri...