ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,400, issued on June 23, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Resource allocation in cellular systems" was invented by Chandra S. Bontu (Nepean, Canada), Peter Hazy (Ottawa) and Jefferson Tokurah (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods for resource allocation are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method implemented in a network node includes selecting an available resource in a transmission time interval, TTI; determining at least one set of dedicated radio bearers, DRBs, that can be co-scheduled in the selected resource; and allocating the selected resource to at least a subset of ...