ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,109, issued on July 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Wireless network selection in international areas" was invented by Amer Catovic (San Diego), Osama Lotfallah (San Diego), Lenaig Genevieve Chaponniere (La Jolla, Calif.), Stephen William Edge (Escondido, Calif.), Bharat Shrestha (San Diego) and Francesco Pica (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of wireless communication performs a public land mobile network (PLMN) search for a higher priority PLMN. The PLMN search includes a candidate PLMN having a different mobile country code (MCC) than a serving PLMN. The method switches to the higher priority PLMN ...