ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,483, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"PLMN selection based on the geo-localisation of a user equipment" was invented by Hannu Hietalahti (Kiviniemi, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises when a user equipment has moved from a first geographic territory to a second geographic territory, causing the user equipment to move from a first public land mobile network associated with the first geographic territory to a second public land mobile network associated with the second geographic territory."

The patent was filed on Sept. 28, 2020, under Application No. 17/641,394.

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