ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,547, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Wireless device scheduling availability during neighbor cell measurements" was invented by Qiming Li (Beijing), Yang Tang (San Jose, Calif.), Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Xiang Chen (Campbell, Calif.), Manasa Raghavan (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to techniques for aligning wireless device and cellular network expectations and behavior in conjunction with neighbor cell measurements in a wireless communication system. A wireless dev...