ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,523, issued on July 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Control plane for multi-SIM devices" was invented by Huarui Liang (Beijing), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Fangli Xu (Beijing), Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Hao Duo (Beijing), Longda Xing (San Jose, Calif.), Murtaza A. Shikari (Mountain View, Calif.), Sethuraman Gurumoorthy (San Ramon, Calif.), Shu Guo (Beijing), Sree Ram Kodali (San Jose, Calif.), Srinivasan Nimmala (San Jose, Calif.), Srirang A. Lovlekar (Fremont, Calif.) and Yuqin Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) includes a first subscriber identification module (SIM) an...