ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,442, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Multi-band multi-RAT cell search" was invented by Parvez Sheikh (Bengaluru, India), Bernd H. Kemmer (Eichenau, Germany), Prasad P. Ashtekar (Haar, Germany) and Saikat Sengupta (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) configured to determine, for each radio access technology (RAT) of a plurality of RATs, a first list of bands on which a public land mobile network (PLMN) is expected to be deployed and a second list of bands including bands not included in the first list, wherein the first list is determined based on a region where the...