ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,993, issued on April 7, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Device settings for satellite networks" was invented by Ryan P. Dreiling (Shawnee, Kan.), Derrick L. Ives (North Bend, Wash.), Thomas P. Lucht (Seattle), Mehul Shah (Bellevue, Wash.) and Helen Wang (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to device settings for satellite networks. A wireless device is disclosed that receives network information from a non-terrestrial network. The wireless device can access device configuration data that associates entries of network information with different device settings to determin...