US Patent Issued to T-Mobile Innovations on March 11 for "MmWave to Wi-Fi control signal offloading in the event of fading in the mmWave system" (Kansas, Virginia, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,607, issued on March 11, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"MmWave to Wi-Fi control signal offloading in the event of fading in the mmWave system" was invented by Atul Kulkarni (Brambleton, Va.), Sreekar Marupaduga (Dallas) and Anurag Thantharate (Overland Park, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for signal offloading in an mmWave environment (e.g., in the event of high fading). The methods and systems include one or more mmWave nodes that are each configured to wirelessly communicate with a user device in a geographic service area and a Wi-Fi access point configured to...