US Patent Issued to Trustees of Tufts College on July 22 for "Network user association" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,047, issued on July 22, was assigned to Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Mass.).

"Network user association" was invented by Alireza Alizadeh (Arlington, Mass.) and Mai Vu (Belmont, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for user association, i.e., user equipment-base station, UE-BS, association, in a cellular network is specifically designed for user association, for instance in 5G mmWave cellular networks. The method is based on the rational that network throughput may be low because of the weakest UE suffering from a weak direct link or high interference from other BSs in the network. Thus, swapping the worst UE-BS connec...