US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on Dec. 30 for "Codec selection using codec list prioritized based on call conditions" (Kansas, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,206, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Codec selection using codec list prioritized based on call conditions" was invented by Lin Zhang (Overland Park, Kan.) and Kun Lu (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "UEs can determine a codec to use for a call based on a codec priority list. A UE can dynamically determine a priority order for the codec priority list based on call conditions experienced by the UE, such that a low bitrate codec may be indicated as the highest priority on the codec priority list if the UE is experiencing relatively poor call conditions. The UE that receives the cod...