ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,464, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Event detection based on uplink traffic in a telecommunications network" was invented by Mark Holland (Vienna, Va.), Jeffrey Michael Torgerson (Bellevue, Wash.) and Robert Zaruba (Overland Park, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An event detection system in a telecommunications network is coupled to base stations to receive characteristics of uplink network traffic transmitted to the base stations. The event detection system identifies a geographic area in which the one or more characteristics of a subset of the uplink network traffic, generated by electr...