US Patent Issued to Relay on Sept. 1 for "Location based subscriber identity module (SIM) switching" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,831, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Relay Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Location based subscriber identity module (SIM) switching" was invented by Alex Rouse (Cary, N.C.) and Dayne Batten (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment is directed to dynamic subscriber identity module (SIM) switching based on a location heatmap. In an example, a method includes obtaining, at a portable communication device (PCD), a heatmap comprising historical cellular network connectivity data for a plurality of positions in a location; determining, by the PCD, a current position in the location; and indicating, at the PCD, cellular network c...