ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,236, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for new-radio-aware LTE scheduling" was invented by Alpaslan Gence Savas (Summit, N.J.), Mathew Thomas (Madison, N.J.), Sachin Vargantwar (Cumming, Ga.), Chin Chiu (Allen, Texas) and Maulik Shah (Carrollton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "New Radio (NR)-aware LTE scheduling is provided. An access station for a radio access network includes a first scheduling function. The first scheduling function identifies a User Equipment (UE) device that has a first active wireless connection and a second active wireless con...