ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,633, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Arrcus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Prevention of subscriber identity module spoofing for mobile user plane" was invented by Tetsuya Murakami (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Keyur Patel (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Prevention of SIM spoofing in mobile user plane. A method includes generating a border gateway protocol (BGP) flow specification based on a range of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses associated with routes for one or more user equipment devices. The method includes, in response to receiving a packet from a node within a radio access network, verifying an inner IP packet encap...