ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,146, issued on May 27, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Mobility between configured cells" was invented by Li-Chuan Tseng (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Chia-Hao Yu (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Kuan-Hung Chou (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Chia-Chun Hsu (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Yih-Shen Chen (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of configuring a set of active cells among neighboring cells to reduce latency and interruption for inter-cell mobility is proposed. The set of active cells is an active set of cells among which UE can do fast cell switching. The set of active cells is configured by the network based on UE measurement rep...