ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,863, issued on June 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for avoiding frequent handover in small cells" was invented by Hao Zhang (Shanghai), Chaofeng Hui (Beijing), Fojian Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Jian Li (Shanghai), Tianya Lin (Shanghai), Mingyan Wang (Shanghai), Jun Deng (Shanghai) and Peng Wu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may avoid frequent handover in small cells by triggering handover to a macro cell. The UE may determine that the UE performs a number of handovers within a time period. The UE may determi...