ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,414, issued on March 31, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Centralized intake and capacity assessment platform for project processes, such as with product development in telecommunications" was invented by Prashant Kulkarni (Flower Mound, Texas), Debadrita Roy (Bothell, Wash.), Sreevidya Baladhandapani (Issaquah, Wash.), Sampath Devadiga (Issaquah, Wash.) and Yehuda Maor (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a platform for real-time intake capacity assessment of a project includes routing, to a service desk, a request to assess capacity for the project. In response, an electronic mess...