ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,944, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Boost SubscriberCo LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Cellular coverage acquisition systems and methods" was invented by Nikhil Rangaraajan Vijayakumar (Littleton, Colo.) and Rohit Singh (Littleton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disclosed method may include receiving, by a server of a mobile operator, a location information message from a user equipment device that the user equipment device sent in response to the user equipment device powering on such that the location information message indicates a location of the user equipment device and matching, by the mobile operator, the location of the u...