ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,864, issued on May 6, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"In-field remote profile management for wireless devices" was invented by Li Li (Los Altos, Calif.), Aurelien P. Raboisson (Torrance, Calif.), Avinash Narasimhan (Fremont, Calif.), George Lin (San Jose, Calif.) and Keizo Marui (New Dundee, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described embodiments set forth techniques for management of electronic subscriber identity module (eSIM) profiles for a wireless device, including in-field replacement of provisioning (bootstrap) eSIM profiles. Public key infrastructure (PKI) information for an original equipment manufac...