ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,200, issued on July 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Electronic subscriber identity module transfer eligibility checking" was invented by Jean-Marc Padova (San Francisco) and Xiangying Yang (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein relate to eligibility checking for transfer of one or more electronic subscriber identity modules (eSIMs) between two mobile wireless devices. Eligibility to transfer an eSIM to an eUICC of a target device can depend on whether the eUICC of the target device satisfies certain security requirements for the eSIMs to be transferred. The mobile wireless de...