ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,259, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Methods, systems, and devices for migrating a ghost software application over a network with subscriber identity module (SIM) authentication" was invented by Howard Lang (Wayside, N.J.) and Joseph Soryal (Glendale, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving first user-generated input, over a communication network, from a communication device that indicates a request to provision a ghost software application on the communication device, and provisioning, over the communication network, an anc...