US Patent Issued to Apple on June 2 for "Smart cell selection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,881, issued on June 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Smart cell selection" was invented by Tarakkumar G. Dhanani (San Jose, Calif.), Karan R. Sachdev (Santa Clara, Calif.), Rohit Thareja (Redwood City, Calif.), Sanjeevi Balasubramanian (San Jose, Calif.), Sharad Garg (Cupertino, Calif.), Vijay Gadde (San Jose, Calif.) and Vijay Venkataraman (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to improving a roaming service. In an example, user equipment (UE) initiates a cell selection process to choose between a first cell and a second cell. The UE evaluates a first uplink (UL) channel co...