ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,986, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Remote subscription profile download" was invented by Patrik Salmela (Espoo, Finland), Kazi Wali Ullah (Espoo, Finland) and Abu Shohel Ahmed (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided mechanisms for enabling subscription profile download to a subscriber entity. A method is performed by a network node of an SNPN. The method comprises receiving a request from the subscriber entity for network registration with EAP based authentication to the SNPN. The method comprises granting network connectivity for the subscriber entity...