ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,856, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Universal unlock microservice system and method" was invented by Kevin Karlin (Highlands Ranch, Colo.) and Prayash Mukherjee (Highlands Ranch, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed towards systems and methods for enabling a universal unlock microservice for user equipment. One such method includes: obtaining a serial number of the user equipment, decomposing the serial number of the user equipment, in response to decomposing the serial number, determining the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of the user equipment, in response...