ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,085, issued on March 24, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Platform independent client framework" was invented by Marouane Balmakhtar (Fairfax, Va.), Brian David Waters (Angel Fire, N.M.) and Lyle T. Bertz (Lee's Summit, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided herein to implement a platform independent client framework, which may also be known as a universal software stack. A computer-implemented method for may be used when seeking to connect a device without a 5G radio, such as a 3GPP device, to a 5G network. The device seeking to connect to the 5G network sends a connectio...