ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,430, issued on April 21, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Temporary emergency call-back allowance over wireless networks" was invented by Jenniffer Lucas Cruz (Renton, Wash.) and Oliver Rankine (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Solutions for temporary emergency call-back allowance over wireless networks improve public safety. A user equipment (UE), associated with a suspended post-paid subscriber account, places an emergency call, such as e911 or e112, over a wireless network (e.g., cellular), and the network flags the subscriber account associated with the UE as permitted to receive incoming calls...