ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,253, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Deutsche Telekom AG (Bonn, Germany).

"Providing communication services to a user equipment using a user equipment subscription of a first network and subscription identifier information of a second network" was invented by Josep Colom Ikuno (Korneuburg, Austria), Sven Lachmund (Munich), Dieter Gludovacz (Trumau, Austria), Mari Melander (Bonn, Germany), Roland Jesske (Laudenbach, Germany) and Johannes Achter (Kleinroetz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to provide the communication services to a user equipment comprising or applying secure edge protection proxy authentication: in ...