ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,962, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Optimizing layer assignment based on QCI" was invented by Roopesh Kumar Polaganga (Bothell, Wash.) and Sreekar Marupaduga (Overland Park, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for optimizing layer assignment based on a total QCI value associated with a UE when the UE falls back from a first wireless access technology to a second wireless access technology, such as from 5G to LTE. QCI values and/or one or more applications running on a UE are monitored to determined when a threshold is met. The UE may receive or init...