US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America on Feb. 18 for "User equipment and base station participating in cell measurement procedures" (German, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,979, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"User equipment and base station participating in cell measurement procedures" was invented by Ming-Hung Tao (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Rikin Shah (Langen, Germany) and Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a radio base station serving a user equipment in a first radio cell of a mobile communication system. The radio base station comprises processing circuitry which determines that a neighbor radio base station does not provide a beamformed reference signal ...