ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,268, issued on June 24, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Smart phone toggle for multi-network connectivity" was invented by Daniel Chak (Mountain View, Calif.), Varun Anand (Mountain View, Calif.), Alex Stillwell (Mountain View, Calif.), Shishir Agrawal (Mountain View, Calif.) and Qingxi Li (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method (500) for toggling multi-network connectivity of a mobile device (110) includes, for the mobile device simultaneously connected to one or more carrier-mediated wireless networks (120) associated with a network operator (70), executing a graphical user interface that...