US Patent Issued to NEC on Feb. 18 for "System and method of dual-SIM UEs operation in 5G networks" (Belgian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,070, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"System and method of dual-SIM UEs operation in 5G networks" was invented by Shubhranshu Singh (Heidelberg, Germany) and Takahito Yoshizawa (Boom, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Many commercially deployed devices support more than one SIM cards. Support for multi-USIM is currently handled in an implementation-specific manner without any support from 3GPP specifications. With the increased complexity of 5G-capable UEs and with growing demand for multi-USIM devices in the market, it becomes important to consider system enhancements that would allow for more efficient so...