ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,608, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Synchronization of RRC status of a multi-SIM user equipment with a base station" was invented by Srirang A. Lovlekar (Fremont, Calif.), Adesh Kumar (San Jose, Calif.), Birgit Breining (Munich), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Fangli Xu (Beijing), Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Longda Xing (San Jose, Calif.), Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata (San Diego), Sethuraman Gurumoorthy (San Ramon, Calif.), Yuqin Chen (Beijing) and Zhibin Wu (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-universal subscriber identity module (MUSIM) user equipment (UE) is configure...