US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on Dec. 16 for "Authenticate a user before performing a sensitive operation associated with a UE in communication with a wireless telecommunication network" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,263, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Authenticate a user before performing a sensitive operation associated with a UE in communication with a wireless telecommunication network" was invented by Michael James Engan (Bellevue, Wash.), Nilesh Ranjan (Sammamish, Wash.), Julia Chanelle Buis (Bellevue, Wash.), Anjani Deepthi Nandigam (Bothell, Wash.) and Savitha Venkata Rao (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system receives an indication of a sensitive operation. The system obtains a unique ID of a user's UE. Based on the unique ID of the UE, the system retrieves a visual authentic...