ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,116, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to NextNav France (Puteaux, France).

"Deep scanning signal monitoring unit for determining cellular network parameters" was invented by Rabih Chrabieh (Montrouge, France), Arnaud Dumenil (Clamart, France), Vinh Hoang Son Le (Massy, France), Laurent Sibony (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France) and Ganda Ouedraogo (Montevrain, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method involves receiving cellular signals from multiple base stations at a signal monitoring unit. A first long-duration signal accumulation of the cellular signals is performed. First cells associated with the base stations are identified ...