ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,425, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for standalone carrier aggregation handover" was invented by Kai Zhang (Beijing), Ajay Singh (San Jose, Calif.), Deepankar Bhattacharjee (San Jose, Calif.), Lele Cui (Beijing) and Lijie Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless network may include a PCELL base station, an SCELL base station, and user equipment (UE) that communicate using standalone carrier aggregation. The UE may receive PCELL signals during first measurement periods, may perform first measurements on the PCELL signals, may receive SCELL signals during second mea...