ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,215, issued on March 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Radio access technology (RAT) spectrum translator" was invented by Sharad Sambhwani (San Diego) and Wanlu Sun (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein may introduce an intermediary device between radio access networks using a first spectrum and user equipment using a second spectrum. The intermediary device may process communication signals from either the first spectrum or the second spectrum into a format usable by the other of the first spectrum or the second spectrum. The intermediary device may be referred to as a mul...