ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,129, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Intelligent provisioning of cell/sector coverage to optimize broadcast areas for wireless emergency alerts" was invented by Terri L. Brooks (Prosper, Texas), Timothy N. Dunn (Issaquah, Wash.), John W. Davis (Kansas City, Mo.), Larany D. Ponxay (Garden Grove, Calif.) and John Michael Hicks (Olympia, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are discussed herein for an optimal approach for wireless emergency alerting within cells of wireless communication networks by using a careful estimation of a "true effective radius" of each cell/sector to e...