ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,176, issued on April 14, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Embedded subscriber identification module with secure profiles" was invented by Qi Lu (Round Rock, Texas), Manuel E Caceres (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Mun Wei Low (Irving, Texas) and Warren H Uy (Randolph, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example device includes a processor, and an embedded subscriber identification module (eSIM). The eSIM includes a secure memory, and a physical memory manager configured to receive a first request to load a first profile for accessing a first mobile network in the secure memory from a first mobile n...