US Patent Issued to T-Mobile Innovations on Feb. 24 for "Enhanced 911 address check bypass" (Washington, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,378, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC.

"Enhanced 911 address check bypass" was invented by Patrick Liang (Auburn, Wash.), Anthony Yiu (Newcastle, Wash.) and Teresa Burnam Treiber (Springfield, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and non-transitory computer-readable mediums are provided for an entitlement system and method having an E911 address check bypass function. Methods provided herein include receiving a request from a mobile device for enabling voice over WiFi (VoWiFi) service and checking E911 address status. Methods further include applying a filter to the request to determine that ...