ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,757, issued on April 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Time-division multiplexing of uplink communications during make-before-break handover" was invented by Karthika Paladugu (Hyderabad, India), Ozcan Ozturk (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego), Prasad Reddy Kadiri (San Diego) and Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a message indicating that the UE is to execute a make-before-break handover procedure. The UE may transmit, during the make-before-break handover procedur...