ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,660, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to THE JOAN AND IRWIN JACOBS TECHNION-CORNELL INSTITUTE (New York).

"Techniques for building digital twins of cellular networks and for navigating therewith" was invented by Kim Mahler (New York) and Stephan Jaeckel (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for building digital twins and navigating using digital twins. Reference signal and identifier data sent via antennas is obtained. Timing advance parameters for signals sent to the antennas are received. One or more machine learning models are applied to the reference signal data and timing advance parameters. Each machine lear...