ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,458, issued on June 23, was assigned to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Extended reality device differentiation" was invented by Ming Shan Kwok (Seattle), Wafik Abdelshahid (Kenmore, Wash.) and Yasmin Karimli (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects provided herein to provide methods, systems, and a non-transitory computer storage media storing computer-useable instructions to differentiate extended reality (XR) devices in a wireless network. The method begins a base station receiving an uplink message containing an XR identifier from an XR device. The base station determines a priority for the XR devi...