ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,653, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Video connection continuity between devices" was invented by Sudhanshu Pandey (Sammamish, Wash.) and Praveen Magham (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described herein for maintaining and/or facilitating video call continuity between devices. For example, the systems and methods support video calls or other communications between multiple devices (e.g., a mobile device providing a video call stream of content and a drone or other moving device capturing and streaming content via a camera) providing video content to a tar...