ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,274, issued on June 24, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Cell selection based on user capability" was invented by Yuhua Chen (London) and Alberto Suarez (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cellular communication system is disclosed in which a base station operates a cell which has a supplementary uplink portion (e.g. on a different frequency and/or using a different technology). The base station broadcasts an offset for user equipment (UE) in its coverage area to assist the UE performing cell selection. Specifically, the UE determines, based on measurements for the cell, the offset, and capability of the UE to communicate usi...