ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,742, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Gateway handover method and apparatus" was invented by Xiaolu Wang (Hangzhou, China), Hejia Luo (Hangzhou, China), Rong Li (Hangzhou, China) and Jun Wang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a gateway handover method and an apparatus, to ensure the reliability of a gateway handover of a terminal device and reduce hardware overheads in a gateway handover process. The terminal device receives a synchronization signal/PBCH (physical broadcast channel) block (SSB) from a network device through a service link. The...