ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,719, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Communication capabilities selection-based security management" was invented by Simon Youngs (Overland Park, Kan.), Ayman Zaki (Renton, Wash.), Thomas Chillson (Olathe, Kan.) and Sanjay Kumar (Overland Park, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are techniques, devices, and systems for utilizing subscriber and user equipment (UE) related content to generate limitations of rich communications service (RCS) capabilities as antispam security measures. The RCS capabilities limitations can be utilized to strip RCS capabilities from possible maliciou...