ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,982, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Unified subscription identifier management in communication systems" was invented by Suresh Nair (Whippany, N.J.), Anja Jerichow (Grafing, Germany), Nagendra S Bykampadi (Bangalore, India) and Dimitrios Schoinianakis (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment in a communication system, a unified subscription identifier data structure is constructed. The unified subscription identifier data structure includes a plurality of fields that specify information for a selected one of two or more subscription identifier types and selectable paramete...