US Patent Issued to T-Mobile Innovations on Aug. 12 for "Optimizing layer assignment during EPS fallback procedures" (Kansas, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,283, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Optimizing layer assignment during EPS fallback procedures" was invented by Sreekar Marupaduga (Overland Park, Kan.) and Roopesh Kumar Polaganga (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for optimizing layer assignment to UEs that are currently on an LTE network, or that are experiencing EPS fallback and are moving from 5G to LTE. Instead of blindly assigning a UE an LTE layer or assigning the same layer to all UEs, aspects provided for an intelligent and dynamic selection of an LTE layer for each UE. The net...