ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,923, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Suitability metrics based on environmental sensor data" was invented by Peter Myron (Fall City, Wash.) and Michael Mitchell (North Bend, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A suitability analysis platform may receive one or more environmental parameter values of one or more environmental parameters collected for a plurality of sites by multiple sensor devices. The platform may aggregate the one or more environmental parameter values collected for each site of the plurality of sites by each site. Subsequently, the platform may receive queries for suitable sit...