ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,226, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Polarization division multiple access" was invented by Akin Ozozlu (McLean, Va.) and Nagi A. Mansour (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods for polarization division multiple access. A polarized antenna system having a plurality of differently-polarized antennas is envisioned for wirelessly communicating with a plurality of user devices in a wireless network environment. Each polarized pair of antenna elements, using a particular frequency, will transmit signals using a...