ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,603, issued on July 14, was assigned to Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG (Munich).

"Network manager and method" was invented by Aziz Taga (Munich), Lars Oestreicher (Munich), Johannes Sinnhuber (Kaufering, Germany), Maurice Uhlmann (St. Wolfgang, Germany), Thomas Janner (Grobenzell, Germany) and Manfred Reitmeier (Landshut, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a network manager comprising a data interface configured to communicatively couple to at least one radio access network of a broadcast network, and to a load data source network; and a request database comprising data of at least one historical da...