US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on Oct. 21 for "Companion or auxiliary unit for testing user devices with a telecommunication network" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,980, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Companion or auxiliary unit for testing user devices with a telecommunication network" was invented by Harwinder Grewal (Bothell, Wash.) and Satya Prakash Karey (Renton, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mobile devices located across remote areas of a telecommunication network are tested using companion or auxiliary units that are coupled to the mobile devices. The units have a portable and/or compact configuration, thereby enabling easy distribution to remotely-located network subscribers, and the units each include an onboard memory subunit (e.g., a ha...