ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,609, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Radio technology selection for a communication session" was invented by Deepak Nadh Tammana (Bothell, Wash.) and Roopesh Kumar Polaganga (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described herein improves communication quality and device efficiency by selecting an initial radio technology (e.g., LTE, 5G) for use in an EN-DC communication session between a user equipment (UE) and a communication network. The radio technology may be selected by a network node (e.g., eNodeB) based on a geographic location of the UE within a servi...