ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,744, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC.

"System and method for geohashed data store query" was invented by Kiran Kumar Komaravolu (Bellevue, Wash.), Gavin Pinchback (Olathe, Kan.), Vikas Ranjan (Bellevue, Wash.), Stephen Michael Shiflet (Rowlett, Texas) and Jason P. Smith (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for providing a database of subscriber interactions with a network. The database is configured for geographical searching. A provider record relating to a transaction between a network node and a subscriber is received. A first period provider records collection including prov...