ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,543, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).
"Interoperable unlocking technology for wireless devices" was invented by Sanjay Laxman Kharate (Sammamish, Wash.), Smitha Ranjitha Royadu Lingala (Bothell, Wash.), Ravikumar Subramanian (Bothell, Wash.), Vadhan Ragoubady (Renton, Wash.), Brian G. Holsclaw (Seattle), Vijay B. Yelmat (Phoenix) and Timothy Potter (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system performs interoperable operations to unlock different wireless devices on different wireless networks. The system can receive requests to unlock wireless devices that are locked based on different restr...