ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,371, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Traffic management to reduce cellular network outages" was invented by Anuj Sharma (Broadlands, Va.), Deepesh Belwal (Ashburn, Va.) and Anil Kumar Mariyani (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traffic orchestrator reduced cellular network outages via improved traffic management. The orchestrator receives network management logs and call logs from network nodes and uses them, along with key performance indicators (KPIs) for network nodes, traffic patterns, and network topology, to identify nodes that are operating in a degraded manner, or are not f...