ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,488, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to EXFO OY (Oulu, Finland).
"Method and apparatus for identity collection" was invented by Jukka Kemppainen (Oulu, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and arrangement for collecting subscriber identity is presented. A communication intelligence cell is formed for carrying out uplink and downlink communication with cellular mobile devices. The cell is connected to the identity query interface of the cellular network operator. An encrypted subscriber identity of the cellular mobile device is received from a mobile device. A radio connection to the mobile device is closed. A second registra...