ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,392, issued on April 21, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Telecommunication network resource allocation using assigned temporary identifiers systems and methods" was invented by Reman Pezhumkad Balakrishna (Nutley, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for assigning temporary identifiers to mobile devices indicating a priority for allocation of network resources are described. A telecommunications network receives a request from a mobile device that includes an identifier for the mobile device or a subscriber associated with the mobile device. The network further receives device capability info...