ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,450, issued on March 18, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"UE retry during network overload" was invented by Lin Zhang (Overland Park, Kan.), Syed Toaha Ahmad (Renton, Wash.), Jaime Enrique Rodriguez Villate (Seattle), Hsin Fu Henry Chiang (Bellevue, Wash.), James J. Bae (Chantilly, Va.), Adnan Rahat (Renton, Wash.) and Hang Hoi Yau (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solution for handling network congestion includes detecting, by a wireless network, a network congestion condition; detecting, by the wireless network, a failed attempt, by a user equipment (UE), to initiate a data session (e.g., a vo...