ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,962, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Methods of logging early measurement carrier status" was invented by Muhammad Ali Kazmi (Sundbyberg, Sweden), Iana Siomina (Taby, Sweden), Christopher Callender (Kinross, Great Britain) and Pradeepa Ramachandra (Linkoping, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed herein for logging of measurement results performed while a wireless communication device is in an inactive or idle state such that the logged information includes information that indicates a status of the respective carrier when logging the measuremen...