ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,494, issued on July 8, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"User equipment assistance information to support multiple public land mobile networks" was invented by Yunjung Yi (Vienna, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.) and Jinsook Ryu (Oakton, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device transmits, to a first base station of a first public land mobile network (PLMN), a first radio resource control (RRC) message during an RRC connection with the first base station. The wireless device selects, during the RRC connection with the first base station, a cell of a second base station of a secon...