ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,092, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Facilitating on demand location based services in advanced networks" was invented by Joseph Soryal (Glendale, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Facilitating on demand location based services in advanced networks is provided herein. Operations of a system include deploying a group of disposable satellite devices in a defined geographic area including forming a sky network that comprises the group of disposable satellite devices. The group of disposable satellite devices can be independent of network equipment currently dispersed within the defined ge...