ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,929, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method of requesting a handover of a communications device" was invented by Vivek Sharma (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Yuxin Wei (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Hideji Wakabayashi (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Yassin Aden Awad (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Lars Nord (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of requesting a handover of a communications device in a source cell by a source infrastructure equipment in a wireless communications network, the wireless communications network comprising the source infrastructure equipment and a non public networ...