ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,050, issued on July 22, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Uplink performance using multiple wireless devices" was invented by Kevin A. Hart (Sammamish, Wash.), 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 for uplink quality enhancement. Methods include experiencing a triggering condition at a wireless device in a network and identifying at least one additional wireless device in the network within a threshold proximity to the wireless device experiencing the triggering condition. The method additionally includes forming a g...