ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,651, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Cell similarity indicator based on coverage area morphology" was invented by Jose Maria Ruiz Aviles (Malaga, Spain), Paulo Antonio Moreira Mijares (Malaga, Spain), Juan Ramiro Moreno (Malaga, Spain), Adriano Mendo Mateo (Malaga, Spain), Jose Outes Carnero (Torremolinos, Spain) and Yak Ng Molina (Malaga, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method (50) and apparatus (60) for quantifying similarities between first and second cells (12a, 12b) in a mobile communications network (10) is provided. In particular, for each of the first cell and the ...