ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,483, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Distributing data among devices at a location based on dynamic rules" was invented by Joseph Phillip Forehand (Denver) and Aziz Yunus Motiwala (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computerized method distributes data to devices associated with a local gateway using data distribution rules. Device data that identifies a first device and a second device of a local gateway is obtained and it is determined that the first device is a higher priority device using that device data. A data distribution rule is determined that prioritizes distribution of...