US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on Dec. 16 for "Secure messaging framework for preventing SIM swap fraud" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,267, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Secure messaging framework for preventing SIM swap fraud" was invented by Deepak Jaiswal (Redmond, Wash.) and Jason Wayne Hayes (Lynnwood, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A telecommunications system is configured to prevent Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) swap scams. The system includes multiple network nodes and a database. When a SIM change occurs for a given phone number, a messaging process is triggered between the network nodes that temporarily sets a flag in the database associated with that phone number. While the flag is set in the database, m...