ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,148, issued on March 4, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta) and AT&T Mobility II LLC (Atlanta).

"Control of suspend/resume and deactivate/activate UICC features in device" was invented by Carl Martin II (Round Rock, Texas) and Robert Holden (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, an AT command that allows an application service provider to modify suspend/resume (S/R) and/or deactivate/activate (D/A) functionality specified in one or more elementary files of a UICC. The S/R and/or D/A functionality can be influenced by the application service provid...