ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,957, issued on April 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Profile and subscription management for wireless devices" was invented by Li Li (Los Altos, Calif.), Dennis D. Conway (Campbell, Calif.), Rajeev Verma (San Jose, Calif.) and Keizo Marui (New Dundee, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This Application sets forth techniques for profile, e.g., subscriber identity module (SIM) and electronic SIM (eSIM), and cellular wireless service subscription management for a wireless device. The wireless device can support multiple profiles, such as dual SIMS or a single SIM and one or more eSIMs. A user of the wireless devic...