ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,244, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for volume porting" was invented by Shivakrishna Vangala (Bellevue, Wash.) and Jesus Ochoa (Stanwood, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods for porting volumes of telephone numbers in wireless networks are described. A volume porting system may process account data to determine numbers associated with individual account and current and future billing account number data for such numbers. Using this data, the volume porting system may generate porting requests and query a porting operations system for porting status data f...