US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on June 30 for "Smart device application prioritization for satellite networks" (Washington, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,048, issued on June 30, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Smart device application prioritization for satellite networks" was invented by Ryan P. Dreiling (Shawnee, Kan.), Derrick L. Ives (North Bend, Wash.), Thomas P. Lucht (Seattle), Mehul Shah (Bellevue, Wash.) and Helen Wang (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The wireless device connects to a non-terrestrial communication network from a terrestrial communication network such that a wireless communication service is provided by the non-terrestrial communication network. The wireless device receives an indication of resource constraints of the non-t...