ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,020, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for measuring neighbor cells using prioritization of the neighbor cells that is based at least in part on associations of the neighbor cells with network operators" was invented by Xianwei Zhu (Beijing), Junli Wu (Beijing), Xuqiang Zhang (Beijing), Jianqiang Zhang (Beijing), Ling Xie (Beijing), Kuo-Chun Lee (San Diego), Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam (San Diego), Xiaochen Chen (Beijing), Shan Qing (San Diego), Xiaoning Lu (San Diego), Yong Hou (Beijing), Peng Hu (Beijing), Yifan Du (Beijing), Wei-Jei Song (San Diego), Tom Chin (San Diego), Mingchun Yang (San Diego), Rajeev Pal (San Diego) and Sathish Krish...