ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,222, issued on July 8, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Method and terminal device for measurement control" was invented by Chunhui Liu (Beijing) and Huaisong Zhu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a terminal device are disclosed for measurement control. According to an embodiment, the terminal device detects, for a cell that is shared by two operators and to be measured by the terminal device, whether frequency bands used by the two operators for the cell are overlapped. When detecting that frequency bands used by the two operators for the cell are overlapped, the terminal device ...