US Patent Issued to Sprint Spectrum on July 29 for "Delaying handovers in 5G EN-DC networks based on carrier aggregation capabilities" (Kansas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,982, issued on July 29, was assigned to Sprint Spectrum LP (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Delaying handovers in 5G EN-DC networks based on carrier aggregation capabilities" was invented by Sreekar Marupaduga (Overland Park, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for preventing or delaying handovers to target access nodes that have limited carrier aggregation capabilities, in dual-connectivity (EN-DC) wireless networks, by adjusting handover thresholds to delay the handover of the wireless device to the target access node, for wireless devices reporting high uplink buffer sizes."

The patent was filed on Nov. 10, 2020, under...