ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,557, issued on March 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for improving reliability and reducing power consumption for FR2 RRM" was invented by Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Pengkai Zhao (Cupertino, Calif.), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Wen Zhao (San Jose, Calif.) and Yushu Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for improving reliability and reducing power consumption for FR2 RRM. In one aspect, a UE is capable of maintaining connectivity of a first RAT and connectivity of a second RAT. The UE is configured to send a ...