ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,846, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"System and method for realtime interference location using wireless network field measurement data" was invented by Timothy E. Coyle (Chicopee, Mass.), Hector Alejandro Garcia Crespo (North Richland Hills, Texas) and Matthew Kapala (North Billerica, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may receive, from a network, an estimate of coordinates of a location of a potential interference source; determine, based in the estimate, whether the system is within a first threshold distance from the location; if the system is with the first ...