ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,284, issued on June 23, was assigned to DISH WIRELESS LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Testing a communications network by varying radio parameters" was invented by Brian Mengwasser (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for optimizing coverage of a network are provided. In the method and apparatus, parameters of the network are varied during a first period of time when the network is actively used for trafficking data in a geographic area. In response to varying the parameters, signal quality for the network and an optima for the signal quality are determined. A first set of parameters that result in the optima for th...