ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,209, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Measurement design for next radio (NR) and long term evolution (LTE)" was invented by Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Yang Tang (San Jose, Calif.), Rui Huang (Beijing), Yuan Zhu (Beijing) and Shuang Tian (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An invention to perform a method of cell measurement in a wireless network, wherein the wireless network comprises a plurality of frequency layers, the invention configured to: determine a Measurement Gap Length, MGL, for each one of the plurality of frequency layers operational in the wireless network; determine a...