ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,500, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Optimizing power resources for interconnected mobile IoT devices" was invented by Parag Garg (Woodinville, Wash.), Nicholas LaVassar (Issaquah, Wash.), Christopher Painter (Kirkland, Wash.), Dhruv Chadha (Kirkland, Wash.), Gavin Feuer (Seattle) and Joseph Baird (Kent, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A central IoT controller is described for conserving power resources of mobile IoT devices. Specifically, the central IoT controller is configured to at least monitor power reserves of mobile IoT devices, and in response to detecting that a power reserve ha...