US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on Dec. 23 for "User notification for service interruption" (Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,202, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"User notification for service interruption" was invented by Raymond Weimin Wu (Newcastle, Wash.), Sridhar Bethamsetty (Frisco, Texas) and Vikas Ranjan (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods for selecting customers to notify of a service interruption or outage are described. A network may receive an interruption notification indicating when a service interruption is to occur. In some examples, the interruption notification may also include a particular set of equipment, such as a base station, that will experience the interruption...