ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,533, issued on April 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"WLAN cellular aggregation" was invented by Panagiotis Botsinis (Munich), Alperen Gundogan (Munich), Amr Abdelrahman Yousef A. Mostafa (Munich), Christian Hofmann (Munich), Sameh M Eldessoki (Munich), Tarik Tabet (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Xipeng Zhu (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein include solutions for wireless local area network (WLAN) cellular aggregation (WCA). A user equipment (UE) may be configured to communicate with one or more base stations using both a direct cellular link and a multi-hop WLAN link. The multi-hop WLAN l...