ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,197, issued on May 27, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Mechanism for uplink waveform switching" was invented by Anokhi Shah (Bellevue, Wash.) and Mochamad Mirza (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are described herein which dynamically provide an optimized mechanism for switching uplink waveforms within a cellular network. An uplink profile generally indicates a number of transmission ports and what uplink waveform is used by a user device to transmit to a base station. A power headroom, channel conditions, and signal to interference plus noise ...