ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,971, issued on March 24, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Methods, systems, and devices for dynamic power allocation to a base station in mobile networks" was invented by Jianchun Zhou (Bellevue, Wash.), Yakun Gao (Suwanee, Ga.) and Ratish Upadhyay (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, generating a multi-user (MU) multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) group including a first group of communication devices. The MU-MIMO group is associated with a base station. Further embodiments can include determining a first group data streams associated ...