ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,956, issued on July 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Prioritized return to RAT NR from RAT GSM / RAT UMTS through RAT reselection based approach" was invented by Parvez Sheikh (Bengaluru, India), Bernd H. Kemmer (Eichenau, Germany), Prasad P. Ashtekar (Haar, Germany), Deepak Dash (Bangalore, India) and Nitin Kuppelur (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for implementing prioritized return of a UE to NR RAT from a GSM/UMTS RAT through RAT reselection based approach. An embodiment operates by determining whether the UE is campe...