ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,107, issued on July 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Autonomous cell measurements" was invented by Nabil Akdim (Munich), Gencer Cili (San Jose, Calif.), Ajoy K Singh (Milpitas, Calif.) and Muthukumaran Dhanapal (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to techniques for a wireless device to autonomously perform certain cell measurements in a wireless communication system. A wireless device may establish a wireless link with a cellular base station. The wireless link may be established according to a first radio access technology. The wireless device may determine whether at least one cell t...