ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,559, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Measurement gap pattern use and management for wireless communication systems" was invented by Jie Cui (Cupertino, Calif.), Yang Tang (Cupertino, Calif.), Qiming Li (Cupertino, Calif.), Zhibin Yu (Cupertino, Calif.) and Hua Li (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) device is configured for performing a signal measurement for wireless communication in a new radio (NR) network. The UE is configured to determine a frequency range (FR) of a serving cell configured to send a signal that is measured by the UE using a signal measurement...