US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on Aug. 11 for "Denial of 5G SA coverage when 4G is not available" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,412, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Denial of 5G SA coverage when 4G is not available" was invented by Muhammad Tawhidur Rahman (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are device(s) of a Fifth Generation (5G) network configured to receive, from a user equipment (UE) a registration request for 5G standalone (SA) coverage and to determine that Fourth Generation (4G) coverage from the telecommunications network is not available to the UE. The device(s) of the 5G network are further configured to deny the registration request in response to determining that the 4G coverag...