ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,571, issued on March 24, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Enterprise agnostic framework for performing enterprise functions" was invented by Loren J. Miller (Snohomish, Wash.) and Vaishali Patil (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises storing a plurality of rules by which a rules engine is configured to determine an application to perform an enterprise function for the enterprise related service, wherein the application is a shared application, determining, based on a first rule stored in the data store, the shared application to perform a first enterprise function, wherein...