US Patent Issued to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES on Nov. 11 for "Method, computer program and apparatus for selecting a beam for handover" (Finnish, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,988, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Method, computer program and apparatus for selecting a beam for handover" was invented by Timo Koskela (Oulu, Finland), Samuli Heikki Turtinen (Ii, Finland), Benoist Pierre Sebire (Tokyo) and Juho Mikko Oskari Pirskanen (Kangasala, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided where handover information about one or more target beams of a target cell is provided. The beam quality of those target beams is determined along with beam quality of one or more other beams of the target cell. Dedicated uplink resources associated with the target be...