ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,834, issued on March 24, was assigned to Boost SubscriberCo LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Cloud-based SIM" was invented by Yongjia Li (Greenwood Village, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for communicating with a cloud SIM software. The method includes activating, on a user equipment (UE), a communication module, and connecting with a cloud SIM software located on a remote server. The method also includes sending, from the UE, a request for content to the cloud SIM software, and receiving, by the UE, the content from the cloud SIM software to a local chip on the UE to facilitate communication between the ...