ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,438, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Enhanced automatic neighbor relation (ANR) to support advanced RAN attributes" was invented by Zhi Cui (Sugar Hill, Ga.), Hongyan Lei (Plano, Texas) and Ye Chen (Marietta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining, in relation to a communication node, a neighboring node of a wireless network, wherein the neighboring node comprises a baseband processor in communication with a radio frequency (RF) subsystem. A determination is made regarding one of a spatial configuration, a hosting infrastr...