US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on Sept. 22 for "Management of mobile communications devices proximate aircraft" (Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,159, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Management of mobile communications devices proximate aircraft" was invented by Yupeng Jia (Austin, Texas) and Michael Prise (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology is directed towards disabling mobile device communications when such communications can possibly interfere with aircraft equipment. Examples include disabling the C-Band communications of devices when proximate an aircraft and/or airport. A signal beacon can be sent to devices, and as one example, devices capable of C-Band communications can be configured...