US Patent Issued to Apple on May 27 for "Method for low layer inter-cell mobility management" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,142, issued on May 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Method for low layer inter-cell mobility management" was invented by Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.) and Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments include an apparatus, method, and computer program product for using low layer protocols for inter-cell mobility management in a 5G wireless communications system. A serving 5G node B (gNB) can configure reports that a user equipment (UE) transmits to the serving gNB to make handover decisions. The servin...