ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,371, issued on May 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Profile download method and device" was invented by Feng Li (Shenzhen, China), Wen Liu (Xi'an, China), Chunlai Feng (Shenzhen, China), Tao Li (Beijing), Xiaolin Li (Shenzhen, China), Xutao Gao (Xi'an, China) and Wenhua Li (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A profile download method includes a primary device obtaining an embedded integrated circuit card identifier (EID) of a secondary device, where the EID is used by the primary device to obtain, from a mobile operator server, profile download information that matches the EID. The primar...