ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,147, issued on April 15, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Geospatial analysis and data export" was invented by James No (Covington, Wash.), Farrah Lee (Bellevue, Wash.), Taha Lahrichi (Bellevue, Wash.), Jeny Bhimani (Bothell, Wash.) and Jacob Holman (Bonney Lake, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can receive datasets having a plurality of records, at least one dataset including wireless telecommunications network coverage data. A system can transform the records to a standardized format. A system can perform geospatial calculations for each record to determine predefined geographic areas, each having a...