ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,757, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Radio access network intelligent controller selecting cell for performing coordinated multi-point transmission/reception, and operation method thereof" was invented by Deokhui Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyunsuk Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Myounghwan Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to various embodiments, a method of operating a network may comprise: obtaining, from a first cell from among a plurality of cells, information relating to the reception strength of a plurality of synchronized signal blocks...