ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,278, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Intergraph Corp. (Madison, Ala.).

"Generating wireless coverage maps" was invented by Javier Buzzalino (Simpsonville, S.C.), Julio P. Roque (Coconut Grove, Fla.) and Peng Tang (Greer, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generating wireless coverage maps includes receiving, for each of a plurality of mobile devices communicating wirelessly with a server system, mobile device location information and mobile device communication service information; generating a dead zone volume map based on the mobile device location information and the mobile device communication service information, the dead zo...