ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,792, issued on June 2, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Carrier grade identification of subscriber identity module card-related fraudulent events" was invented by Yaron Koral (Cherry Hill, N.J.), Lauro Lins (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Lukasz Grabarski (Duvall, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology is directed towards detecting suspected malicious activity involving mobile devices and subscriber identity module (SIM) cards, including discerning benign SIM swap events from likely malicious SIM swap events. In one example, call detail records, radio access network events and billing events are ...