ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,357, issued on March 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Multi-SIM UE capability indications and band conflict resolution" was invented by Sethuraman Gurumoorthy (San Jose, Calif.), Srirang A. Lovlekar (Cupertino, Calif.), Fangli Xu (Beijing), Haijing Hu (Beijing), Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata (San Diego), Sarma V. Vangala (Campbell, Calif.), Yuqin Chen (Shenzhen, China), Zhibin Wu (Los Altos, Calif.), Longda Xing (San Jose, Calif.), Rama Diwakara Rao Noolu (Fremont, Calif.) and Birgit Breining (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and associated methods for operating a dual-subscriber identity module (SIM...