US Patent Issued to T-Mobile Innovations on Nov. 18 for "Calculating a location of user equipment prior to communicating an SMS message to an emergency number" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,302, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Calculating a location of user equipment prior to 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 calculating a location of user equipment (UE) prior to communicating an SMS message to an emergency number. More particularly, additional time is provided to location services so a complete location can be determined, prior to an SMS message being com...