ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,262, issued on March 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"PDCP and ROHC handling for multi-connectivity handover" was invented by Candy Yiu (Portland, Ore.), Yujian Zhang (Beijing), Yi Guo (Shanghai) and Jaemin Han (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques to configure a user equipment (UE) for a multi-connectivity handover with a source base station (SBS) and a target base station (TBS) include encoding a measurement report for transmission to the SBS. The measurement report is triggered based on a measurement event configured by the SBS. Radio resource control (RRC) signaling from the SBS is decoded...