ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,202, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods and systems for switching between service provider networks" was invented by Samian Kaur (Plymouth Meeting, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user device (e.g., a mobile phone, user equipment (UE), a dual subscriber identity module (SIM) dual standby (DSDS) device, a multi-SIM multi-standby device (MSMS) device, a mobile device, a smart device, laptop, tablet, computing device, etc.) may dynamically determine configurations for preferred and/or offload networks and optimally switch connections between service provider networks."

The...