US Patent Issued to Apple on Nov. 25 for "On-device shared provisioning SIM/eSIM controller for a wireless device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,878, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"On-device shared provisioning SIM/eSIM controller for a wireless device" was invented by Viswanath Nagarajan (San Jose, Calif.), Jean-Marc Padova (San Francisco) and Li Li (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application sets forth techniques for dynamically managing a shared provisioning electronic subscriber identity module (eSIM) for a wireless device. A shared (non-unique) provisioning eSIM is installed in the wireless device to provide limited functionality connectivity to services, such as for device activation and user eSIM provisioning....