ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,093, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Terminal registration processing method and device" was invented by Minggang Gao (Shenzhen, China), Qingyu Ni (Shenzhen, China), Dan Li (Shenzhen, China) and Xuemei Ding (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal registration processing method and device are provided. The method includes: detecting that an identity card is inserted into at least one card slot; reading an identifier of the identity card; acquiring, from a database, a network identity corresponding to the identifier, wherein the database stores a correspondence between a network ident...