ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,258, issued on July 28, was assigned to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Service specific beam radio frequency beam optimization for 5G networks" was invented by Gezim Krasniqi (Issaquah, Wash.) and Alan Denis MacDonald (Bellevue, Wash.).

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 instructions for service specific beam optimization. The method begins with receiving a first protocol data unit (PDU) session request from a first user equipment (UE) comprising a request for a first slice. The method also includes determining a first se...