ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,948, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Intelligent allocation of network resources" was invented by Gunjan Nimbavikar (Sammamish, Wash.), Hsin Fu Henry Chiang (Bellevue, Wash.), Ming Shan Kwok (Seattle), Shujaur Mufti (Snoqualmie, Wash.), Suresh Thanneeru (Redmond, Wash.), Wafik Abdel Shahid (Kenmore, Wash.), Zeeshan Jahangir (Snoqualmie, Wash.) and Boris Antsev (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and techniques described herein relate to intelligently allocating network resources to Quality of Service (QoS)-sensitive data traffic. An example method includes identify...