ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,308, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Interdigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"System and methods for phased reconfiguration in wireless systems" was invented by Ghyslain Pelletier (Montreal, Canada) and Yugeswar Deenoo (Chalfont, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and methods for performing phased reconfiguration in a wireless communications system are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may perform a phased reconfiguration from a source cell to a target cell. The WTRU may be connected to the source cell and may execute a first set of functions towards the source cell. The WTRU may monitor for a...