ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,528, issued on April 7, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Cell selection" was invented by Omer Bulakci (Munich), Konstantinos Samdanis (Munich), Ahmad Awada (Munich) and Muhammad Naseer-Ul-Islam (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is provided a method, comprising generating a mobility ranking list based on received performance relevant information for a plurality of cells, wherein the performance relevant information indicates a performance of each of the cells of the plurality of cells, and the mobility ranking list indicates for each of the cells of the plurality of cells a respective priority for the r...