ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,264, issued on April 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"User equipment with wireless coverage tracking capabilities" was invented by Anjaneyulu Maganti (San Jose, Calif.), Ashley M. Williams (Mountain View, Calif.), Dhruv Khati (San Jose, Calif.), Jia Tang (San Jose, Calif.), John W. Fenwick (Woodside, Calif.), Sanjeevi Balasubramanian (San Jose, Calif.) and Shiva Krishna Narra (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communications network may include user equipment that communicates with external equipment. The user equipment may include an antenna, measurement circuitry, control circuitry, and a displa...