ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,235, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Conditional procedure operations" was invented by Chih-Hsiang Wu (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Jing Hsieh (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To configure a connection with a UE, a central unit (CU) of a distributed base station provides, by processing hardware to the UE, a conditional configuration for a cell of a distributed unit (DU) of the base station (1002). The CU receiving, by the processing hardware, an identifier of the cell of the DU (1004). Additionally, the CU determines, by the processing hardware, that the UE connects to the cell based on t...