ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,880, issued on March 24, was assigned to AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I LP (Atlanta).

"Autonomous drive tests in wireless communication systems" was invented by Eshrat Huda (Hillsborough, N.J.), David Lu (Irving, Texas), Moshiur Rahman (Marlboro, N.J.), Russell Fischer (Bernardsville, N.J.) and Prafulla Verma (Holmdel, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system of a cellular network may receive at least a first measurement of at least one network performance indicator associated with the cellular network from at least one of: at least a first channel sounding measurement record from at least a first autonomous vehicle (AV...