US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 16 for "Enhanced RACH-less handover" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,712, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Enhanced RACH-less handover" was invented by Qiming Li (Cupertino, Calif.), Yi Guo (Cupertino, Calif.), Jie Cui (Cupertino, Calif.), Yang Tang (Cupertino, Calif.) and Hua Li (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes methods, systems, and devices for handover of a user equipment (UE) from a source node of a radio access network (RAN) to a target node of the RAN. In one example, a method involves receiving, by the UE and from the source node, a RACH-498 handover message comprising: (i) an uplink grant for establishing a connection...