ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,295, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to DISH NETWORK LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"System and method for avoiding disconnections during video calls" was invented by Arun Pulasseri Kalam (Karnataka, India) and Hariprasanth Mohanraj (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a wireless system including an access point and a client device. The access point receives audio data and video data, transmits the audio data and video data using a first MCS, and transmits the audio data using a second MCS, where a code rate of the first MCS is greater than a code rate of the second MCS. The client device receives the aud...