ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,270, issued on July 14, was assigned to Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson, Texas).

"Ballasted telecommunications equipment mounts and assemblies" was invented by Jyoti Ojha (Southlake, Texas), Dale Heath (Fort Worth, Texas), Michael Carnes (Euless, Texas) and Kevin Ray Paswalk (Watauga, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes a telecommunications equipment mount. The mount includes a stabilization frame having a plurality of lower rails, a plurality of vertical rails, and a plurality of upper rails, the lower, vertical, and upper rails forming a top, a bottom, and sides of the stabilization frame...