ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,296, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Configuring limited channel bandwidth usage for low-priority network devices" was invented by Christopher Bailey (Overland Park, Kan.), Ryan Dreiling (Shawnee, Kan.) and Maksym Siryy (Overland Park, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A telecommunication network limits bandwidth usage for devices associated with lower service priority levels, thus conserving physical resources for use by devices with higher service priority levels. Low priority devices can include mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) devices, roaming devices, Internet of Things (IoT) device...