US Patent Issued to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS on April 7 for "Coverage tuning based on uplink and downlink balancing" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,480, issued on April 7, was assigned to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Coverage tuning based on uplink and downlink balancing" was invented by Nirmal Chandrasekaran (Hillsborough, N.J.) and Sivakumar Periyasamy (Morris Plains, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for power balancing includes receiving data from wireless devices within a cell provided by an access node and estimating a downlink coverage distance of the cell based on signal strengths reported in the data. The method further includes estimating an average distance from the access node at which the wireless devices have insufficient transmit pow...