ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,291, issued on April 14, was assigned to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Secure process for device registration with a service" was invented by Cheng Chang Liu (Overland Park, Kan.), Jason Bart Marshall (Olathe, Kan.), WeiQun Yan (Overland Park, Kan.), Hongkun Jin (Overland Park, Kan.) and Abdul Khaliq Shaik (Overland Park, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology is disclosed herein for registering a user device with a service. In an implementation, a service receives a request from a user device to begin a registration process. The request includes registration data and the public key of an asymmetric key pa...