US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on July 14 for "User equipment based control for Wi-Fi and cellular based connectivity" (Washington, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,401, issued on July 14, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"User equipment based control for Wi-Fi and cellular based connectivity" was invented by Sharath Somashekar (Overland Park, Kan.), Mason Tyler Bouffard (Seattle) and Oscar R. Cummings (Lynwood, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for selecting a wireless connection based on network metrics are discussed herein. For example, user equipment (UE) can be connected to a Wi-Fi network. The UE may test the Wi-Fi connection to determine metrics associated with the Wi-fi connection. The UE may compare the metrics to a speed and/or bandwidth threshold. If ...