US Patent Issued to Apple on Nov. 4 for "Physical layer cell identifier (PCI) configuration and automatic neighbor relations (ANR) for 5G networks" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,383, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Physical layer cell identifier (PCI) configuration and automatic neighbor relations (ANR) for 5G networks" was invented by Joey Chou (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Yizhi Yao (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques discussed herein can facilitate one or more of improvements to Automatic Neighbor Relation(s) (ANR(s)) for cell(s) of a Radio Access Network (RAN), configuration of Physical-layer Cell Identifier(s) for cell(s) of the RAN, and/or end-to-end performance assurance for the RAN based on 5G QoS Identifier (5QI) targets and/or requirements. Various...