ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,264, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta) and AT&T Mobility II LLC (Atlanta).

"Seamless personal hotspot connectivity via personal hotspot tokens" was invented by Jason Sikes (Carnation, Wash.), Todd Wallace (Hamilton, Mont.), Matthew Wallace (Colleyville, Texas) and Arnold Schrider (Mercer Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for seamless personal hotspot connectivity via personal hotspot tokens. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a personal hotspot-enabled device can include a processor and a memory. The memory can store instructio...