ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,970, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Dynamically assigning resource blocks to facing sectors" 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: "A wireless communication network includes base stations serving cells. A first sector of a first cell served by a first base station is facing a second sector of a second cell served by a second base station. A controller receives performance data for each of the facing cells and dynamically assigns resource blocks to each base station. The base stations use the assigned resource blo...