ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,509, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Repurposing corrective actions as preemptive actions for adjacent clusters of user devices" was invented by Syam Sarasamma Kunjukrishnan (Bellevue, Wash.), Boua Lor (Bellevue, Wash.) and Senthil Kumar Mulluppadi Velusamy (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology can repurpose a corrective action targeted for an original network device as a preemptive action for other network devices that are adjacent to the original network device. The other network devices are adjacent based on a shared service plan, a common geographic regio...