ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,186, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Automatic detection and reporting for deployable cell sites" was invented by Jason Young (Buford, Ga.) and Muhammed Abughrara (Aldie, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, accessing device usage data that can be generated when end user devices connect with the network; and analyzing the device usage data according to identification information of the deployable cell site, which enables determining or estimating a location of the deployable cell site. In one embodiment, this analysis can be based...