ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,818, issued on May 20, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Eliminating overlapping spectrum interference using orthogonal codes" was invented by Nagi A Mansour (Arlington, Va.) and Akin Ozozlu (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects provided herein to provide methods, systems, and a non-transitory computer storage media storing computer-useable instructions to eliminate overlapping spectrum interference. The method begins with assigning a first portion of contiguous spectrum to a first user equipment. A second portion of contiguous spectrum is assigned to a second user equipment. The first por...