US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Jan. 28 for "Method and apparatus for optimizing RAN power consumption" (New Jersey, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,083, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Method and apparatus for optimizing RAN power consumption" was invented by Farid Khafizov (Plano, Texas) and Mark Ernest Newbury (Hillsborough, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods may optimize power consumption for RAN devices. A device obtains field data of user equipment (UE) devices for a group of cells during a time interval. The device computes cell boundaries for each cell and computes a cumulative overlap feature within the geographic area of interest for each cell of the group of cells during a future time per...