ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,052, issued on June 30, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method, device, and system for cell access in wireless networks" was invented by Li Niu (Shenzhen, China), Bo Dai (Shenzhen, China), Xiubin Sha (Shenzhen, China) and Ting Lu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to cell coverage, cell search, cell access, cell selection, and cell measurement in wireless networks. Performed by a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless network, the method including determining a cell coverage information associated with a search limitation of the UE. In this disclosure, various embodiments are di...