ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,648, issued on May 20, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Handover management in a communications network configured to support multi-rat dual connectivity" was invented by Debasish Sarkar (Irvine, Calif.), Surajit Mondal (Bangalore, India), Shikha Singh (Haryana, India), Ayan Sen (Karnataka, India) and Aruna Mani (New Delhi).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method and non-transitory computer readable media for facilitating adaptive anchor layer mobility in a 5G NSA implementation. In one arrangement, a handover modulation criterion involving relevant trigger parametrics of an anchor cell node...