ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,269, issued on March 25, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication system" was invented by Vivek Sharma (Sutton, Great Britain), Meng Wang (Guildford, Great Britain) and Yassin Aden Awad (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gateway is described which facilitates a change of communication cell for a mobile device in a communication system, which includes a core network. The gateway receives messages from a base station operating a cell and forwards the messages received from the base station to the core network. The gateway intercepts a message relating to a change of communication cell, from a source cell in which the mo...