US Patent Issued to RAKUTEN MOBILE on Feb. 24 for "Apparatus and method for providing a maintenance plan in a telecommunication network" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,408, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus and method for providing a maintenance plan in a telecommunication network" was invented by Ziya Akhundov (Tokyo) and Trevor Wieland (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for selecting an upgrade sequence of cell sites in a radio access network are provided. The apparatus includes a memory storing instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: determine, for each cell site pair from among a plurality of cell sites, a pairing score based on a coverage overlap between the cell sites, split the plu...