ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,665, issued on May 19, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Telecommunications-assisted system for presenting proximity dependent offerings of entities at wireless devices" was invented by Sharath Somashekar (Overland Park, Kan.), Sunil Kumar Gopal Reddy (Olathe, Kan.), Rashmi Kumar (Herndon, Va.) and Shruthi Ramakrishna (Overland Park, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server system associated with a telecommunications network can determine a first location of a wireless device based on a cellular signal. The system determines whether the first location of the wireless device is within a predetermined distance fr...