ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,379, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Automatic user equipment degradation optimization" was invented by Raymond E. Reeves (Orlando, Fla.) and Simon Youngs (Overland Park, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system of a telecommunications network comprising an automatic user equipment (UE) degradation optimization (AUDiO) Optimizer is disclosed. The AUDiO Optimizer collects network performance metrics or network events associated with a UE and retrieves a user profile that includes information indicating the network activity of the subscriber. The AUDiO Optimizer also obtains information about ...