ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,017, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Automated network changes relating to network configuration updates in response to roaming partner updates" was invented by Raymond T. Ball (Seattle), Suryanarayana Gorty (Bellevue, Wash.), Paria Hakimi (Bellevue, Wash.), Cesar Mandanas (Bellevue, Wash.), Vineeth Appukkuttan Nair (Bellevue, Wash.), Allen G. Ricciardi (Bellevue, Wash.), Carmine Shelton (Bellevue, Wash.), Sushma Shetty (Belleuve, Wash.) and Ravikumar Subramanian (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system periodically retrieves roaming network updates associated with at least one ...