ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,971, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"User equipment and base station involved in a handover" was invented by Ming-Hung Tao (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Rikin Shah (Langen, Germany), Akihiko Nishio (Osaka, Japan) and Hongchao Li (Langen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a user equipment (UE) that comprises a receiver of the UE receives, from a source base station of a source radio cell, a common timing advance value for a target radio cell. The UE is connected to the source radio c...