ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,262, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Methods, systems, and devices for providing subscription services to a communication device that shares an operational profile with another communication device" was invented by Walter Cooper Chastain (Atlanta), James Hamilton (Sammamish, Wash.), Jason Sikes (Carnation, Wash.) and Stephen Emille Chin (Marietta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting a first bootstrap profile on a first communication device, and detecting a second bootstrap profile on a second communication device. Further...