ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,959, issued on July 21, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Cell reselection method and apparatus" was invented by Wuyang Zheng (Shenzhen, China) and Tingting Geng (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a cell reselection method and an apparatus. A terminal device sends a radio resource control (RRC) setup request message to a first radio access network device a plurality of times. The terminal device receives a response message for the RRC setup request message within a preset time. The terminal device determines, based on a first preset threshold and a quantity of con...