ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,421, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods and system for performing handover in a wireless communication system" was invented by Jin Wang (Princeton, N.J.), Stephen E. Terry (Northport, N.Y.) and Arty Chandra (Roslyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for performing handover in a third generation (3G) long term evolution (LTE) system are disclosed. A source evolved Node-B (eNode-B) makes a handover decision based on measurements and sends a handover request to a target eNode-B. The target eNode-B sends a handover response to the source eNode-B indicating...