ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,236, issued on April 7, was assigned to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Owner controlled and incentivised smartphone platform based on microservices" was invented by Zheng Fang (McLean, Va.), Ankit Arvind Muchhala (Leesburg, Va.), Herkole Sava (Centreville, Va.) and Michael Scott Witherell (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication system authorizes a User Equipment (UE) to use a wireless network slice. The wireless communication system transfers a user application for the wireless network slice to the UE. The wireless communication system generates a container instruction for the user ap...