ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,436, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Method of reducing advertised RF band" was invented by Rukun Mao (Mountain View, Calif.), Qin Zhang (Mountain View, Calif.) and Shivank Nayak (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A User Equipment (UE) (102) supports a plurality of RF bands (132) associated with a plurality of country codes. The UE (102) reduces the entirety of the set of UE-supported RF bands (132) based on a current, physical location (115) of the UE (102), and the UE (102) advertises only the reduced set of UE-supported RF bands to a network or wireless communication system ...