ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,509, issued on May 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for network coexistence" was invented by Anatoliy S Ioffe (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Amit Freiman (San Jose, Calif.), Alexander Sayenko (Munich), Sumit Verma (San Diego) and Sharad Sambhwani (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "User equipment may transmit and receive wireless signals to and from various communication networks. Furthermore, user equipment may indicate usage capabilities to the various wireless communication networks to enable the user equipment to transmit and/or receive wireless signals to and from at least two different commun...