ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,501, issued on July 8, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Call routing while roaming on a 5G wireless telecommunication network" was invented by Joel Arends (Renton, Wash.), Nassereddine Sabeur (Bellevue, Wash.) and Raymond Ball (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system and method to route a call from a roaming UE on a 5G network. The system receives from a UE belonging to a home network an indication of a call to a dialed number. The call requires information associated with the UE that is not available to the first wireless telecommunication network, because the UE is roaming on a visitor netwo...