ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,025, issued on June 30, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Location-based optimization of quality of service network performance" was invented by Sunil Kumar Gopal Reddy (Olathe, Kan.), Gerald D. Doaks (Overland Park, Kan.) and Sharath Somashekar (Overland Park, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access and mobility management function (AMF) of a server system can receive performance parameters and location information from a user device. The performance parameters can describe the quality of a wireless connection of the user device on the telecommunications network. The server system can determine a geographic...