ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,118, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Assisted switching using artificial intelligence in adverse environment conditions" was invented by Catherine Kalke (Seattle) and Yupeng Jia (South Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting conditions of an operating environment of a user equipment device (UE); determining that the operating environment is an adverse environment; and providing a signal to an artificial intelligence (AI) engine on the UE regarding the adverse environment; the AI engine, responsive to the signal, ...