ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,154, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Survival time dependent flexible handover execution" was invented by Muhammad Naseer-Ul-Islam (Munich), Omer Bulakci (Munich), Ahmad Awada (Munich), Jedrzej Stanczak (Wroclaw, Poland), Srinivasan Selvaganapathy (Bangalore, India), Amaanat Ali (Espoo, Finland), Rakash Sivasiva Ganesan (Munich) and Janne Ali-Tolppa (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for survival time dependent flexible handover execution are provided. One method may include providing, by a network node, at least one han...