ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,865, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Mobile subscriber authentication and risk evaluation system and process" was invented by Johannes Jaskolski (Milford, Conn.) and Maria Gorham (Guilford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device in a messaging core, that includes: a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations including receiving a short messaging system (SMS) message from an application-to-per...