US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on Oct. 21 for "UE-controlled selection between inter-RAT handover and inter-RAT dual connectivity" (Kansas, Virginia, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,941, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"UE-controlled selection between inter-RAT handover and inter-RAT dual connectivity" was invented by Atul Kulkarni (Brambleton, Va.), Sreekar Marupaduga (Dallas), Sougata Saha (Overland Park, Kan.) and Anurag Thantharate (Overland Park, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for dynamically controlling connectivity of a user equipment device (UE) when the UE has standalone connectivity with a first access node under a first radio access technology (RAT). An example method includes the UE detecting that the UE is within threshold strong cover...