ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,159, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Network selection method and apparatus, terminal, and network-side device" was invented by Huan Li (Chang'an, China), Xiaowan Ke (Chang'an, China) and Zhenhua Xie (Chang'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a network selection method and apparatus, a terminal, and a network-side device. The network selection method in embodiments of this application includes: obtaining, by a terminal, network selection policy information, where the network selection policy information includes a network identifier of at least ...