ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,515, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Serving cell measurements in idle mode" was invented by Hongbo Yan (Vista, Calif.), Amir Farajidana (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Christian Hofmann (Munich) and Dietmar Gradl (Ebersberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to scheduling SSB measurements on SSB beams. In an example, a base station can transmit SSBs on SSB beams that form a serving cell. Depending on an SSB measurement on one of the SSB beams, a UE can schedule an additional SSB measurement on this SSB beam only or schedule SSB measurements on the different SSB beams."

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