ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,829, issued on March 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Temporary transfer of embedded subscriber identity module (eSIM) profile" was invented by Sai Krishna Chittoor (Hyderabad, India) and Vijayakumar Reddy (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to electronic devices and, more particularly, to techniques and apparatus for temporarily transferring subscriber identity module (SIM) profiles. One example method generally includes: receiving, from a first user equipment (UE), a request to obtain a SIM profile associated with a second UE, the first UE being...