ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,097, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to NEC LABORATORIES EUROPE GMBH (Heidelberg, Germany).

"Method and system for design planning of a cellular network" was invented by Antonio Albanese (Heidelberg, Germany), Vincenzo Sciancalepore (Heidelberg, Germany) and Xavier Costa-Perez (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is provided for optimizing positioning performance of a cellular network. The method includes: defining a target area; identifying a set(S) of base station deployment candidate sites (j) within the target area; obtaining, by executing a joint performance optimization routine tha...