ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,499, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Network search method and electronic device" was invented by Rui Yang (Beijing), Xuyang Du (Shenzhen, China), Hao Song (Shenzhen, China), Fenghui Dou (Beijing) and Hui Jin (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides network search methods and electronic devices. One method includes: A terminal device accesses a network of a first communications radio access technology (RAT), determines that a network anomaly occurs, where the network anomaly includes: no network or a fall into a lower RAT and searches for a network of a...