ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,340, issued on April 15, was assigned to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Slices for applications based on multiple active SIM profiles" was invented by Zheng Cai (Fairfax, Va.), Zheng Fang (McLean, Va.), Yu Wang (Fairfax, Va.) and David Z. Sun (Broadlands, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication network receives a first Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) profile from a User Equipment (UE) and authenticates the UE based on the first SIM profile. The network receives a first slice request from the UE and authorizes a first wireless network slice for the UE based on the authentication of the first SIM p...