ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,254, issued on March 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Hybrid measurement gap operation" was invented by Qiming Li (Beijing), Yang Tang (San Jose, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Xiang Chen (Campbell, Calif.) and Manasa Raghavan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for hybrid measurement gap operation. A network-side device may provide a hybrid measurement gap (MG) configuration to a wireless device, the hybrid measurement gap (MG) configuration scheduling measurement operation of the wireless device...