ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,900, issued on July 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Secondary eSIM provisioning for wireless devices" was invented by Raj S. Chaugule (Santa Clara, Calif.), Francisco J. Gonzalez (San Diego), Jianwei Chen (Fremont, Calif.), John Basacchi (San Diego), Li Li (Los Altos, Calif.) and Nai Tao Cui (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application describes provisioning a secondary electronic subscriber identity module (eSIM) to a wireless device to access a cellular wireless network of a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) to supplement and offload from a cellular wireless network of a mobile netw...