ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,034, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Optimizing coverage and power usage in a network deploying an unlicensed band" was invented by David Charles Jones (Bellevue, Wash.) and Anokhi Shah (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, media, and systems are provided for optimizing coverage and power usage in a network deploying an unlicensed band. A first transmission power associated with a primary carrier and a second transmission power associated with a secondary carrier are determined. Location data and channel state information from a user device utilizing the primary c...