ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,750, issued on May 5, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Geographic location-based SIM switching" was invented by Jan GrieBbach (Hamburg, Germany), Till Steffen Witt (Bremen, Germany), Javier Velasquez Gomez (Hamburg, Germany) and Nicolas Harmen Lehment (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to switching SIMs in a mobile telecommunications device based on geographic location. Example embodiments disclosed include a method of operating a mobile telecommunications device having a first SIM and a second SIM, the method comprising: identifying a geographic location of the device; operating the device...