ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,993, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson, Texas).

"Small cell with predefined handover parameters" was invented by Awaiz Ahmad Khan (Milpitas, Calif.) and Utsaw Kumar (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio node in a network (such as a small cell) that receives predefined handover parameters is described. During operation, the radio node may receive, from a computer (such as a controller), information specifying the predefined handover parameters, where the predefined handover parameters correspond to a density of radio nodes in the network. For example, the radio node may pr...