ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,597, issued on May 20, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for service-based automatic identity switching for a device in a private network" was invented by Sylvestre Demonget (Millburn, N.J.), Anand J. Shah (Parsippany, N.J.), David Albert Rossetti (Randolph, N.J.) and Madhusudan Mandyam Bheemarayan (Hillsborough, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system described herein may identify traffic associated with a User Equipment ("UE") that is connected to a first network. The UE may maintain a plurality of UE identities via one or more SIM ("Subscriber Identification Module")...