US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 26 for "IMEI binding and dynamic IMEI provisioning for wireless devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,976, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"IMEI binding and dynamic IMEI provisioning for wireless devices" was invented by Li Li (Los Altos, Calif.), Vikram Bhaskara Yerrabommanahalli (San Ramon, Calif.), Rafael L. Rivera-Barreto (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sherman X. Jin (Santa Clara, Calif.), Clive E. Rodgers (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Najeeb M. Abdulrahiman (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This Application sets forth techniques for binding and dynamic provisioning of international mobile equipment identifier (IMEI) values with cellular wireless service profiles, such as subscriber identity mod...