ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,217, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Multi-access PDU sessions for multi-USIM devices" was invented by Amer Catovic (San Diego), Waqar Zia (Munich), Dario Serafino Tonesi (Berlin), Sebastian Speicher (Wallisellen, Switzerland), Ajith Tom Payyappilly (San Diego) and Lenaig Genevieve Chaponniere (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects are provided which allow an MA PDU session to establish over two 3GPP accesses respectively via different PLMNs associated with respective USIMs of a MUSIM device. During registration, the MUSIM UE may transmit a registration request to a base station of a fir...