ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,569, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"SMTC2-LP based RRM enhancement" was invented by Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Qiming Li (Beijing), Yang Tang (San Jose, Calif.), Manasa Raghavan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xiang Chen (Campbell, Calif.), Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.) and Hong He (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for a user equipment (UE), comprising performing, based on acquired information, in at least one of an idle mode and an inactive mode, at least one of an intra-frequency neighbor cell measurement and an inter-frequency neighbor ...