ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,056, issued on June 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods to validate multi-SIM devices with 3GPP-5G and SNPN support" was invented by Tauseef Ahmad Qidwai (Hyderabad, India), Rajendra Prasad Nelurouth (Hyderabad, India) and Rohit Prasad Sharma (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) is configured such that a SIM card inserted in the UE, which is invalid to camp on a network, may be allowed by the UE to camp on the network based on a preconfigured policy. The policy, for example, may re...