ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,610, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Barring factors in wireless communications systems" was invented by Shivank Nayak (Milpitas, Calif.), Siddharth Ray (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Qin Zhang (Mountain View, Calif.), Blake Kragten (San Diego), Jibing Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Madhusudan Kinthada Venkata (San Diego) and Srinivas Vangaru (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Access class barring can provide latency for accessing a barred service using a radio access technology (RAT) due to congestion of a local cell accessed via that RAT. A user equipment (UE) supports multiple RATs and the same ...