ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,181, issued on April 15, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Weapon manager" was invented by Ahmad Arash Obaidi (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for implementing a weapon manager are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of determining, by the server, that the weapon is in a particular location. The actions further include determining, by the server, a projected travel path of the weapon. The actions further include, based on determining that the weapon is in a particular location and t...