ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,106, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Network interface management for citizens broadband radio service" was invented by Raj S Chaugule (Santa Clara, Calif.), Li Li (Saratoga, Calif.), En Yang Zhang (Calgary, Canada) and Piyush Kumar Garg (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for network interface management for Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) deployments, e.g., in LTE and/or 5G NR systems and beyond, including methods for coarse selection of CBRS networks and fine selection of CBRS networks as well as support for multiple CBRS networks. Coarse sel...