ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,590, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Radio access technology switching based on network support" was invented by Sohrab Ahmad (Hyderabad, India), Bhanu Kiran Janga (Hyderabad, India), Osama Lotfallah (San Diego), Abhishek Bhatnagar (San Diego) and Quanling Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for efficiently falling back from one RAT to another RAT while maximizing the services available to a UE. When a request from a UE for communicating with a base station using one RAT is rejec...