ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,484, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Method and system for third party subscription management of end device profiles" was invented by Warren Hojilla Uy (Randolph, N.J.), Thomas W. McArtney (Long Valley, N.J.), Taussif Khan (Martinsville, N.J.), Alexandre De Melo (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Mary Williams (Miltona, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a third party subscription management of end device profiles service is provided. The service may include obtaining a profile for a card of an end dev...