US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on May 26 for "Geofencing for Internet-of-Things devices" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,437, issued on May 26, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Geofencing for Internet-of-Things devices" was invented by Anbalagan Elumalai (Issaquah, Wash.), Paul Marvin Lim Chy (Snohomish, Wash.) and Anupama Malireddy (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to geofencing for Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. A geofence within which an IoT device is authorized to operate is provisioned to an IoT device managed by an IoT service enablement platform. The IoT device transmits recurrent location estimates to the IoT service enablement platform over a wireless network using the Lightwe...