ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,148, issued on May 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Uplink switching for enhanced mobility" was invented by Ozcan Ozturk (San Diego), Karthika Paladugu (San Diego), Gavin Bernard Horn (La Jolla, Calif.) and Tingfang Ji (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for uplink switching for enhanced mobility. In some aspects, this disclosure provides techniques for potentially reducing or eliminating service interruptions experienced during a handover from a source cell to a target cell. Additionally, thi...