ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,851, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Assisted connectivity" was invented by Peng Cheng (Beijing), Gavin Bernard Horn (La Jolla, Calif.), Karthika Paladugu (Hyderabad, India), Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Qing Li (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Ozcan Ozturk (San Diego), Soo Bum Lee (San Diego) and Shailesh Patil (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for assisted connectivity techniques. For example, a UE may transmit, to an AN, a request to establish a RRC connection with a PN, an...