ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,920, issued on June 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Cell search based on user equipment (UE) battery condition" was invented by Ehsan Ahmed Quadri Syed (Teaneck, N.J.), Fnu Srinivas Kote Narasimhamurthy (San Diego), Mohamed Lamine Haidara (New Providence, N.J.), Mohammad H. Akhtar (Morris Plains, N.J.), Syed A. Rahim (Allen, Texas) and Muthukumaran Dhanapal (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing cell search based on battery conditions of a user equipment (UE). For example, some aspects of this disclosure relate to a UE. The UE inc...