ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,168, issued on April 15, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Conditional handover in a dual connectivity system" was invented by Srinivasan Selvaganapathy (Bangalore, India), Ahmad Awada (Munich), Amaanat Ali (Espoo, Finland) and Ingo Viering (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various example embodiments relate to signaling and execution of a conditional handover in a dual connectivity system. Different conditional handover connectivity configurations may be provided for a client node such that an appropriate connectivity configuration can be selected at the time of triggering execution the conditional handove...