ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,951, issued on May 6, was assigned to BlackBerry Ltd. (Waterloo, Canada).

"Control of uplink data transmission" was invented by Claude Jean-Frederic Arzelier (Molieres-sur-Ceze, France), Stephen John Barrett (Haywards Heath, Great Britain), Rene Faurie (Versailles, France) and Karen Lynn Bachman (Fuquay-Varina, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for control of data transmission in a wireless communication system includes receiving, by an application, from a modem, information indicative of a radio coverage condition, where a user equipment (UE) includes the application and the modem; based on the received information, deter...