ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,721, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Minimization of drive test report validation" was invented by Hasan Farooq (Santa Clara, Calif.), Julien Forgeat (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Liljenstam (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Meral Shirazipour (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments, a method performed by a network node for validating minimization of drive test (MDT) reports comprises: receiving a MDT report generated by a wireless device: determining to perform validation on the received MDT report: correlating the MDT report with MDT reports from o...