ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,272, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).
"Location-aware security validation for network device setup" was invented by Savitha Venkata Rao (Sammamish, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The solution enhances the security of new wireless device setups is enhanced by the verification of the geographic location of the new device upon network attachment against the one or more known subscriber locations, or locations associated with the network subscriber that is expected or intended to be operating the new device. These locations can include a home address recorded in subscriber profile information ...