ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,972, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Microwave network monitoring system" was invented by Pradipbhai Kher (Lewis Center, Ohio), Vivek Babu Vedullapalli (Parker, Colo.) and Hung Chau (Cypress, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for monitoring a multi-vendor microwave network accesses a cell site router (CSR) to obtain IP addresses of radio units, establishes direct Secure Shell (SSH) connections to these units, and retrieves performance data from multiple vendors' equipment. The data is processed to generate unified performance metrics, stored in a cloud-based system, and...