US Patent Issued to Apple on July 15 for "Link selection for an idle or inactive user equipment" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,625, issued on July 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Link selection for an idle or inactive user equipment" was invented by Fangli Xu (Beijing), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Longda Xing (San Jose, Calif.), Murtaza A. Shikari (Mountain View, Calif.), Sethuraman Gurumoorthy (San Ramon, Calif.), Sree Ram Kodali (San Jose, Calif.), Srinivasan Nimmala (San Jose, Calif.), Srirang A. Lovlekar (Fremont, Calif.) and Yuqin Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote user equipment (UE) configured to access a network via one of a direct link with a base station or a relay link wit...