ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,058, issued on June 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Adaptive cell selection, reselection and mobility assistance techniques" was invented by Muralidharan Murugan (Hyderabad, India), Rishika Tindola (Hyderabad, India), Nitin Pant (San Diego), Jun Deng (Shanghai) and Hewu Gu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described that provide for cell selection or reselection at a user equipment (UE) based on cell selection preference criteria of the UE. The UE may receive a set of cell selection criteria that provides a priority order for cell selection based on o...