ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,376, issued on July 14, was assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus and method for highly utilized cell identification" was invented by Gourav Deshlehra (Indore, India), Manish Patidar (Indore, India), Deepak Vishwakarma (Indore, India) and Akshay Gujar (Indore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for identifying highly utilized cells within a network based on one or more key performance indicators. The method can comprise receiving first key performance indicator (KPI) data with respect to a cell within the network, receiving a first criteria with respect to the ...