ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,783, issued on June 10, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Connection control for MUSIM devices" was invented by Aby Kanneath Abraham (Muvattupuzha, India) and Jussi-Pekka Koskinen (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided measures for enabling/realizing efficient connection control for MUSIM devices, which are communication elements or functions involving multiple universal subscriber identity modules. Such measures exemplarily include obtaining a connection rejection and a connection request inhibition time information in response to a connection request for a first universal subscriber ...