ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,639, issued on July 14, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Methods for simultaneous communication using a plurality of subscriber identities, a related wireless device and a related network node" was invented by Torgny Palenius (Barseback, Sweden), Anders Berggren (Lund, Sweden) and Lars Nord (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed, performed by a wireless device, for simultaneous communication using a plurality of subscriber identities. The method comprises establishing, with a first network node, a first radio connection. The first radio connection is associated with a first subscriber identity ou...