ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,606, issued on April 22, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Multi-USIM UE assistance information with unavailable time" was invented by Faranaz Sabouri-Sichani (Aalborg, Denmark), Frank Frederiksen (Klarup, Denmark), Thomas Haaning Jacobsen (Norresundby, Denmark) and Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas (Gistrup, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, apparatus, computer program for a user equipment having at least two connections to at least two network nodes, where each connection corresponds to a different user identity, selecting by the user equipment one of the at least two network nodes to communicate exclu...