ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,718, issued on June 16, was assigned to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Enhanced user equipment off-network connection signaling support for mobile virtual network operators" was invented by Bashir A. Haswarey (Elmhurst, Ill.), Mohammad Abu-Samra (Orland Park, Ill.), Narothum Saxena (Hoffman Estates, Ill.) and Michael S. Irizarry (Barrington Hills, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and core network element of a primary network operator (NO) are described for supporting roaming connection signaling messages between a user equipment communicating via a secondary MNO and core network components of a mobile vi...