US Patent Issued to T-Mobile Innovations on April 7 for "Using subscriber identity module (SIM) card as a security key for SIM swap fraud prevention" (Washington, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,470, issued on April 7, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Using subscriber identity module (SIM) card as a security key for SIM swap fraud prevention" was invented by Hugh Tyler Amick (Seattle), Sean Patrick Hoelzle (Collegeville, Pa.) and Deepak Jaiswal (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of utilizing a SIM card as a security key for subscriber identity module (SIM) swap prevention is described. The method includes receiving, from a service provider, an initial one-time password (OTP) delivery request comprising an OTP message, a mobile station international subscriber directory num...