ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,110, issued on July 28, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Methods and systems for automatically implementing resets in a network based on network impact" was invented by William Brian Durrough (Harrison, Ohio), Brian Lushear (Winter Springs, Fla.) and Julie Springer (Kansas City, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An incident management system comprises a reset application. The reset application is configured to (i) determine to perform a reset operation at a network element in the radio access network based on an incident report describing an incident occurring at the network element, (ii) determine a ...