ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,561, issued on March 11, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Visual refarming of telecommunications spectrum blocks" was invented by Flaviu Gabriel Panduru (Renton, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spectrum refarm system facilitates visual refarming of spectrum blocks. The system retrieves data defining a set of telecommunications spectrum blocks that are licensed by a telecommunications network within a selected geographic region, where each spectrum block is allocated to one or more technologies to facilitate communications transmitted according to a protocol defined within each technology. The system gener...