ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,414, issued on April 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Intelligent transmission port selection and power utilization for a cellular device" was invented by Sriram Subramanian (San Jose, Calif.), Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar (Singapore), Madhukar K. Shanbhag (Santa Clara, Calif.), Pengkai Zhao (Cupertino, Calif.), Sanjeevi Balasubramanian (San Jose, Calif.), Shiva Krishna Narra (Dublin, Calif.), Vijay Venkataraman (San Jose, Calif.), Vishwanth Kamala Govindaraju (Mountain View, Calif.) and Wenping Lou (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) is configured to establish network connections...