US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on Sept. 2 for "Emergency communications testing using short codes" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,050, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Emergency communications testing using short codes" was invented by Tong Luo (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing emergency communications testing are disclosed. Network components, such as a text control center, may be configured to recognize a short code in a text message and enter an emergency communications testing mode for the user device that transmitted the short code. In testing mode, the network components may process emergency communications by determining the emergency processing data (e.g., routing i...