ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,677, issued on May 5, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"System and method for selecting new cell sites for deployment in a cellular network" was invented by Ahmed Awwad Whdan (Centennial, Colo.), Satish Kumar Sharma (Englewood, Colo.) and Arnold Foronda Agcaoili (Littleton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data relating to call failures that occurred in a wireless communication network is accessed from a memory, the data including a plurality of call failure samples. The samples are plotted on a map along with a potential new cell site. An enclosed buffer area is selected around the potential new cell site and ...