ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,818, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Handling PLMN prioritization" was invented by Roland Gruber (Sauerlach, Germany), Deepak Dash (Bangalore, India) and Nitin Kuppelur (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) transmits a registration request message to a first public land mobile network (PLMN), wherein the first PLMN is a roaming PLMN, receives a registration accept message from the first PLMN, determines that the registration accept message includes a manipulated steering of roaming (SoR) container or does not include a SoR container, wherein the SoR container is con...