ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,547, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for supporting multiple universal subscriber identity modules" was invented by Taussif Khan (Martinsville, N.J.), Mary Williams (Miltona, Minn.) and Alexandre De Melo (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE), comprising at least one processor may be configured to transmit a first attach request to a first wireless network based on a first universal subscriber identity module (USIM). The UE may receive a rejection from the first wireless network and may switch from the first USIM to a...