US Patent Issued to SIGNIFY HOLDING on Jan. 13 for "Method and apparatus for handover control in an optical wireless communication network" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,047, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method and apparatus for handover control in an optical wireless communication network" was invented by Francisco David Rojas Calvente (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Christian Jordan (Venlo, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In optical wireless communication networks (e.g. LiFi networks), comprised of multiple access points (201, 202), APs, a mechanism is provided for seamless handover between two overlapped neighboring APs, wherein a sectorized endpoint (209) is configured to exploit knowledge of channel turnaround to detect the presence o...