ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,186, issued on April 14, was assigned to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).
"Methods and systems for network authentication using a unique authentication identifier" was invented by Marouane Balmakhtar (Fairfax, Va.), Galip Murat Karabulut (Vienna, Va.) and Lyle W. Paczkowski (Mission Hills, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A core network comprises a data store is configured to store a record associated with a wireless communication device, wherein the record comprises a plurality of pre-provisioned security parameters related to the wireless communication device. A core authentication application at the core network...