US Patent Issued to Apple on April 22 for "Secure eSIM subscription transfer" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,524, issued on April 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Secure eSIM subscription transfer" was invented by Hyewon Lee (Cupertino, Calif.) and Xiangying Yang (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described embodiments set forth techniques for securely transferring a cellular wireless service subscription associated with an electronic subscriber identity module (eSIM) profile from a source wireless device to a target wireless device via communication with servers of a mobile network operator (MNO). An MNO provisioning server encrypts an activation code, used for transfer of the cellular wireless service...