ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,632, issued on July 14, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Providing telecommunications resources to users based on availability" was invented by Ryan P. Dreiling (Shawnee, Kan.), Mehul Shah (Bellevue, Wash.), Helen Wang (Bellevue, Wash.), Thomas P. Lucht (Seattle), Michele Lundahl (Bellevue, Wash.) and Derrick L. Ives (North Bend, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing telecommunications resources to users based on telecommunications resource availability are disclosed. The system stores information pertaining to one or more mobile networks within a first mobile network list, where ...