ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,960, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Alternative device cellular network short wave triangulation system" was invented by Yash Sharma (Delhi, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides an alternative device short wave beacon for mobile network boosting. As such, communication devices associated with computer terminal nodes, such as automated teller machines (ATM) are converted and integrated with beacons to allow transmission of short wave mobile network transmission to boost active signal strength of active mobile networks. The system does this by performing triangulati...