ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,018, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Steering of roaming check during mobility registration" was invented by Nitin Kuppelur (Bengaluru, India), Krisztian Kiss (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.), Deepak Dash (Bengaluru, India), Karthik Anantharaman (Cupertino, Calif.), Kavya B. Ravikumar (San Diego), Nirlesh Koshta (Bengaluru, India) and Sridhar Prakasam (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods provide steering of roaming (SoR) information during a user equipment (UE) mobility registration process. In other systems and methods, instead of triggering mobility and periodic registrati...