US Patent Issued to T-Mobile Innovations on Aug. 5 for "Providing additional time to user equipment for location determination before communicating an SMS message to an emergency number" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,270, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Providing additional time to user equipment for location determination before communicating an SMS message to an emergency number" was invented by Zaheer Mohammed Siddique (Overland Park, Kan.) and Hyung Keun Choi (Overland Park, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for delaying communication of a short message service (SMS) message to an emergency number until a location of user equipment (UE) is determined. To do so, a timer is started as soon as the user hits send for SMS to an emergency ...