US Patent Issued to SIGNIFY HOLDING on July 1 for "Fast handover for an optical multi-cell communication system" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,017, issued on July 1, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Fast handover for an optical multi-cell communication system" was invented by Antonio Salas Moreno (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Tomas Garcia Haya (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Octavia Martinez Gomez (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for use in an optical wireless communication system that enable communication of data, e.g. LiFi, and wherein fast handover can be achieved by having neighboring access points (AP1, AP2) announce themselves using very short frames, that get picked up by user devices (EP1) that dete...