ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,107, issued on May 12, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Network identification collision detection for private networks" was invented by Alexander Sirotkin (Tel Aviv, Israel), Daniel M. Valins (San Francisco), Nai Tao Cui (Santa Clara, Calif.), Raj S. Chaugule (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sudeep Manithara Vamanan (Nuremberg, Germany) and Tao Tao (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are directed toward network identification collision detection. An example method includes selecting a first subscriber identity module (SIM) associated with a public land mobile network identifier (PLMN ID) and a network id...