ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,330, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Out-of-service scanning for paired radio devices" was invented by Mahesh Devdatta Telang (San Jose, Calif.) and Shivank Nayak (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first user equipment (UE) that is initially coupled to a second UE and a base station enters an out-of-service (OOS) state upon losing its wireless connection to a service via the base station. The first UE attempts to reestablish the connection while sending OOS recovery parameters to the second UE. The second UE does not automatically scan for service if a signal strength of its conne...