ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,367, issued on July 1, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Methods and systems for on-demand cell site inventory update retrieval" was invented by Jamir A. Dirksen (Casselberry, Fla.), Ivan Maldonado (Apopka, Fla.), Christopher C. Poirier (Titusville, Fla.), Paul Andrew Shinholster Jr. (Orlando, Fla.) and Roger Wilbert (Oviedo, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for on-demand cell site inventory update retrieval in a telecommunications carrier network comprises receiving, by an inventory application, updated component data associated with one or more components in a cell site, wherein the updated...