ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,194, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to DISH WIRELESS LLC (Englewood, Colo.).
"Antenna identification tool" was invented by Venkata Pavan Siddartha Aravind Anchala (Herndon, Va.), Dilip Tandekar (Broadlands, Va.), Gurpreet Sohi (Parker, Colo.) and Sourabh Gupta (Ashburn, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for identifying backup candidate cell sites for a primary cell site are described. A backup candidate cell site may comprise a cell site that is available to replace or support a primary cell site that serves a coverage area in the event that the primary cell site fails or experiences a significant reduction ...