ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,552, issued on May 27, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Data bandwidth management method and device" was invented by Tsung-Hsi Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Tzu-Wen Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data bandwidth management method is provided. The data bandwidth management method is applied to a data bandwidth management device. The bandwidth management method includes the steps of obtaining one or more data bandwidth sharing configurations corresponding to one or more sharing devices; receiving a service request of a client device connected to the data bandwidth management device; and allocating ...