ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,053, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Application line selection for multi-SIM devices" was invented by Hitesh A. Anklesaria (Monroe, N.J.), Praveen Venkataramu (Raritan, N.J.), John M. Stokes (Yorba Linda, Calif.) and Mun Wei Low (Irving, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein enable association of an application with a line of service on Dual SIM Dual Standby (DSDS) devices. A user equipment (UE) device receives a command to execute an application that requires a mobile network connection. The UE device detects multiple available subscrib...