ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,838, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SHANGHAI TUGE DATA TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Method and apparatus for establishing communication connections" was invented by Yihuang Xie (Shanghai), Kaihang Wang (Shanghai) and Hao Zhou (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for establishing communication connections. The method includes: in response to a failure of a SIM card, acquiring first KI card information, establishing a first communication connection to a cloud SIM card management platform based on the first KI card information; acquiring cloud SIM card information from...