ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,273, issued on April 14, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Traffic pattern adaptive modem gear control for electronic devices" was invented by Chung-Pi Lee (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Yuan Yuan (Beijing), LunHan Chang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Jun Hu (Beijing), Jianwei Zhang (Beijing) and Wei-Jen Chen (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a traffic pattern adaptive modem (modulator-demodulator) gear control method for an electronic device. The traffic pattern adaptive modem (modulator-demodulator) gear control method includes: when a first criteria is met, on-line collecting a period of inpu...