ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,882, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Reducing wireless telecommunication network traffic by distributing authentication credentials and subscription profiles across multiple networks" was invented by Mehul Shah (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed system obtains an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) range of multiple UEs operating on a first network. The system obtains a subscription profile and authentication credentials of a UE among the multiple UEs. The system stores the IMSI range, a first subscription profile, and the authentication credentials in a ...