ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,105, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).
"Radio access technology prioritization" was invented by Wafik Abdel Shahid (Bellevue, Wash.) and Ming Shan Kwok (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile device determines the radio access technology (RAT) to use to connect to a wireless network at a geographic location based on determining the highest priority RAT that the mobile device is compatible with in the geographic location. The highest priority RAT in the geographic location is, for example, the RAT with the largest aggregate bandwidth or the RAT with the best user quality of experience in th...