ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,975, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Wireless technology indicator display" was invented by Yupeng Jia (Austin, Texas), Inderpreet Ahluwalia (Austin, Texas), Jinhong No (Issaquah, Wash.) and Jason Sikes (Carnation, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An indicator (e.g., "5G+" or "5G") displayed on a mobile device is based on whether the mobile device is connected in or (if idle) has the potential of connecting in a high channel bandwidth frequency band (e.g., n77 or mmWave). An accurate indication is displayed when the mobile device is connected, or when idle and the aggregated bandwidth ...