ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,409, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Metric-based band combination selection" was invented by Mona Agrawal (San Diego), Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam (San Diego), Girish Khandelwal (San Diego), Rashmi Ranjan Mohanty (San Diego), Vijay Marwah (San Diego), Daniel Amerga (San Diego), Sanjeev Athalye (San Diego), Marc Azar (La Jolla, Calif.), Joe Thomas (San Diego) and Brian Clarke Banister (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of wireless communication performed at a user equipment (UE), includes transmitting, to a network node, a first indication of a first UE radio capability, the first UE rad...