ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,150, issued on May 12, was assigned to British Telecommunications PLC (London).

"Network management" was invented by Farhad Mehran (London) and Richard MacKenzie (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a telecommunications network, the telecommunications network having a first node, a second node, and a third node, and the method including identifying a first schedule for a frame for facilitating communication between the first node and the second node; identifying a second schedule for a frame for facilitating communication between the second node and the third node, wherein the frames each have an uplink subfr...