ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,179, issued on June 24, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Spectrum management for DSS-based networks" 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: "A system and method of managing network bandwidth is provided, in which one or more utilization thresholds are set for an access node, wherein the access node is configured to communicate using a band consisting of a first portion corresponding to communication in a first communication mode and a second communication mode and a second portion corresponding to communication ...