US Patent Issued to T-Mobile Innovations on Aug. 5 for "Optimizing special subframes to minimize time-of-flight" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,431, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Optimizing special subframes to minimize time-of-flight" was invented by Nagi A. Mansour (Arlington, Va.) and Akin Ozozlu (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided herein the dynamically select a special subframe used in communication between a cell site and a user equipment (UE). The method begins with determining radio interference metrics for a cell site being used for communication with a UE. A time of flight metric is also determined for the cell site. Based on the radio interference metrics and the time of f...