ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,842, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for performing mobility robustness optimization in a handover procedure" was invented by Lianhai Wu (Chaoyang, China), Bingchao Liu (Changping District, China), Jing Han (Chaoyang District, China), Haiming Wang (Xicheng District, China) and Jie Shi (Haidian District, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application is related to a method and apparatus for performing a mobility robustness optimization (MRO) mechanism in a handover procedure of a user equipment (UE). Upon a failure associated with a serving cell of a base statio...