ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,166, issued on April 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for measurement configuration updates for inter-cell mobility" was invented by Qiming Li (Beijing), Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Yang Tang (San Jose, Calif.), Fangli Xu (Beijing), Yuqin Chen (Beijing), Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Manasa Raghavan (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Xiang Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a network element is provided. The method comprises: encoding a message for transmission to a user equipment (UE) including neighbor cell configuration information ...