ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,916, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Method for uplink/downlink channel bundling for improved spectrum allocation and link budget for performance mobile cellular satellite systems" was invented by Akin Ozozlu (McLean, Va.) and Nagi A. Mansour (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to aspects herein, methods and systems for providing multiple channel bundling for mobile phone satellite cellular systems are provided. More particularly, after a node comprising at least one time division duplex (TDD) layer and a frequency division duplex (FDD) layer determines a user equ...