ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,012, issued on July 1, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Handover method and communication apparatus" was invented by Le Yan (Shenzhen, China), Qinghai Zeng (Shanghai), Tingting Geng (Shanghai) and Hongping Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A handover method and a communication apparatus. A terminal device receives a first message, where the first message includes information about N candidate cells, the N candidate cells include N1 candidate cells and N2 candidate cells, the N1 candidate cells include a cell for which no conditional handover CHO execution condition information is co...