ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,332, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).
"Uplink transmission layer management" was invented by Mochamad Mirza (Bothell, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for uplink layer selection includes determining a location of a multi-antenna wireless device and identifying a zone for the multi-antenna wireless device based on the location. The method further includes selecting an uplink transmission mode for each of the multiple antennas based on the identified zone. In a zone closest to a serving access node, the multiple antennas utilize carrier aggregation and in a zone furthest fr...