ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,901, issued on April 21, was assigned to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Dynamic channel allocation of narrowband internet of things and long-term evolution machine communications" was invented by Nagi A. Mansour (Arlington, Va.) and Akin Ozozlu (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects provided herein provide methods, systems, and a non-transitory computer storage media storing computer-useable instructions for dynamic allocation of internet of things (IoT) device communications. The method begins with determining an amount of unallocated spectrum in a communications channel used by one or more devices at...