ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,812, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Boost SubscriberCO LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Cloud profile" was invented by Christopher William Krasny Ergen (Littleton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile device is configured for use with selected mobile services and performs operations including receiving a request to use a given selected mobile service (SMS) which facilitates virtualization of an application program, first identifying and retrieving mobile application data (MAD) associated with the SMS from a first data store and receiving the SMS. A server provides the SMS to the mobile device and the SMS provides at least one fe...