ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,353, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (New Tech Park, Singapore).

"Accessing a mobile communication network using a user identifier" was invented by Dimitrios Karampatsis (Ruislip, Great Britain), Apostolis Salkintzis (Athens, Greece) and Genadi Velev (Darmstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for accessing a mobile communication network using a User Identifier. One apparatus (600) includes a processor (605) that establishes (805) a first connection with a remote unit and a transceiver (625) that receives (810) a first request via the first connectio...