ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,961, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Algorithm selector for profiling application usage based on network signals" was invented by Stewart Renehan (Seattle) and Jeremy Angel Evan (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technique incudes a method for dynamically selecting an algorithm that predicts usage of a mobile application based on network signals. In one example, an application profile includes known network signals and designates a best predictive algorithm. When network signals of user devices are subsequently captured, the best algorithms of sufficiently matching profiles ...