US Patent Issued to Vodafone Group Services on Aug. 25 for "Configuration of a cellular network mobile station for roaming operation" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,459, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Vodafone Group Services Ltd. (Newbury, Great Britain).

"Configuration of a cellular network mobile station for roaming operation" was invented by Yang Lu (London), Christopher Pudney (London) and Peter Dawes (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cellular network mobile station (MS) is configured for roaming operation. A prioritization of one or more Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) configurations is stored at the MS. When the MS is attached or registered for access to a PLMN that is not a Home PLMN or PLMN configuration that is not a highest priority PLMN configuration, it performs an idle ...