ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,292, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to New York University (New York).

"Handover with low latency in response to blockages in a wireless network" was invented by Shivendra S. Panwar (Freehold, N.J.), Athanasios Koutsaftis (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Fraida Fund (Highland Park, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To address challenges in existing 5G wireless networks, a new wireless backhaul scheme, referred to as Fast Wireless Backhaul (FWB), is described. More specifically, in order to reduce handover delays in a network including a gateway device, at least two base stations, and a user equipment device, one of a group of the base station...