ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,162, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).
"Battery management using selective EN-DC enablement" was invented by Ming Shan Kwok (Seattle) and Wafik Abdel Shahid (Kenmore, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) may support establishing an E-UTRAN New Radio-Dual Connectivity (EN-DC) connection with a telecommunication network that involves both a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) connection and a fifth generation (5G) connection. However, the EN-DC connection may drain a battery of the UE more quickly than the LTE connection would alone. Accordingly, an EN-DC switcher executing on the UE ca...