ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,639, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Littleton, Colo.).

"Use of connectors" was invented by Nikhil Sharma (Highlands Ranch, Colo.), Scott Caldarella (Parker, Colo.) and Ramanthan Sekkappan (Prosper, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include receiving request data associated with a service, the request data in a first format. The method may also include determining an endpoint of the service and a second format associated with the service. The method may include generating a service request based at least in part on the request data, the service request in the second format. The method may then in...