ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,909, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Uplink and downlink prescheduling in fixed wireless access networks" was invented by Roopesh Kumar Polaganga (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station receives a request from a fixed wireless access network for uplink and downlink prescheduling. Blind grants for uplink data are sent to multiple subscriber units. The fixed wireless access network implements dynamic scheduling of downlink data. The uplink data is received from the multiple subscriber units based on the blind grants. The downlink data is sent to the multiple subscriber un...