ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,009, issued on July 29, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Method and apparatus for band frequency range selection via service entitlement server" was invented by Yupeng Jia (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes receiving, by a processing system, a query from a server regarding a frequency range for use in a communication by user equipment (UE); responding to the query by providing information to the server regarding whether use of the frequency range is authorized; receiving an updated report from the UE, based on the ...