ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,613, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Filtering of layer 1 beam measurements for L1/2 inter-cell mobility" was invented by Ahmad Awada (Munich), Panagiotis Spapis (Munich), Umur Karabulut (Munich) and Sanjay Goyal (Denville, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus may be configured to: receive two or more filtering configurations, wherein a first configuration is associated with at least one first target cell associated with a first distributed unit, wherein a second configuration is associated with at least one second target cell associated with at least one second distributed unit...