ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,896, issued on July 21, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Automatic in-store subscriber device detection and processing" was invented by Jacob Holman (Bonney Lake, Wash.) and Ravikiran Sindogi (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communications system comprises a subscriber user equipment and a mobile expert user equipment. The subscriber user equipment is configured to log in to a subscription account application installed on the subscriber user equipment using subscriber credentials, wherein the subscriber credentials are pre-registered with a telecommunications service provider a...