US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on Aug. 4 for "Location-specific services provided via short-range communications between business beacons and user devices on a telecommunications network" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,387, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Location-specific services provided via short-range communications between business beacons and user devices on a telecommunications network" was invented by Joohyung Kim (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed, cause a system to enable a location-based service. The location-based service is associated with a business subscriber of the telecommunications network and is based on input from a user subscriber of the telecommunications network. The system receives a first ...