ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,457, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Cell reselection" was invented by Yuqin Chen (Beijing), Alexander Sirotkin (Tel Aviv, Israel), Fangli Xu (Beijing), Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata (San Diego), Pavan Nuggehalli (San Carlos, Calif.), Ralf Rossbach (Munich), Sarma Vangala (Campbell, Calif.), Sethuraman Gurumoorthy (San Ramon, Calif.), Sudeep Manithara Vamanan (Nuremberg, Germany), Vijay Venkataraman (San Jose, Calif.) and Zhibin Wu (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising: receiving, from a ...