US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on May 26 for "Enablement of electronic device applications in satellite communication mode" (Washington, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,805, issued on May 26, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Enablement of electronic device applications in satellite communication mode" was invented by Derrick L. Ives (North Bend, Wash.), Ryan P. Dreiling (Shawnee, Kan.), Thomas P. Lucht (Seattle), Helen Wang (Bellevue, Wash.), Michele Lundahl (Bellevue, Wash.), Mehul Shah (Bellevue, Wash.) and Zaheer Mohammed Siddique (Overland Park, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile device having multiple applications installed determines that a first communication network associated with a mobile network operator of the mobile device is unavailable. The device receive...