US Patent Issued to Telecom Italia on April 21 for "Cellular communication system featuring SON functionality" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,258, issued on April 21, was assigned to Telecom Italia S.p.A. (Milan).

"Cellular communication system featuring SON functionality" was invented by Simone Bizzarri (Turin, Italy), Gianluca Francini (Turin, Italy), Giorgio Ghinamo (Turin, Italy) and Giuseppe Minerva (Turin, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for configuring a cellular network comprising a plurality of network cells. The method comprises: monitoring, during a monitoring time period, a performance indicator of each network cell for each one of a plurality of monitoring time intervals of said monitoring time period; determining a plurality of sets of measured...