ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,449, issued on March 25, was assigned to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Data attestation in a wireless communication system" was invented by Oliver Coudert (Arlington, Va.), Lyle Walter Paczkowski (Mission Hills, Kan.) and Bharatwajan Raman (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication system attests to user data from a wireless user device. The wireless user device receives satellite signals from satellites and determines satellite signal metrics for the satellite signals. The wireless user device determines its geographic location based on the satellite signals. The wireless user device ...