ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,691, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Littleton, Colo.).

"Determination of devices that are available for unlock" was invented by James Ramirez (Littleton, Colo.) and Christopher George (Lees Summit, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is provided. In one example, the method includes: managing serialized inventory information regarding user devices according to a serialized inventory live status (SILS) data structure of the user devices, the serialized inventory information including first serialized inventory information regarding a first user device; obtaining a first state of the f...