ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,911, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for remote SIM provisioning with confirmation code" was invented by Tarun Verma (Flemington, N.J.), Zhongting Shen (Branchburg, N.J.) and Bharadwaj Vemuri (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method disclosed provide a subscription management (SM) platform, associated with a mobile network operator (MNO), that may receive from a first user device, over a second network other than the MNO, a discovery message including the device identifier. The first user device may not include a SIM profile ...