ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,061, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Intelligent aggregated hierarchical eSIM profile management for logistics and supply chain" was invented by Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India) and Sathya Santhar (Ramapuram, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach for validating a sequence of assembly of a product and dynamically updating an eSIM profile associated with each component part of the product so that a user can track a degree of progress of the sequence of assembly, a processor receives a delivery request from a user to assemble and to deliver a product. A processo...