ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,221, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Assistance information processing method, assistance information sending method, and related device" was invented by Yanxia Zhang (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses an assistance information processing method, an assistance information sending method, and a related device, and pertains to the field of communication technologies. The method includes: receiving physical cell identifier PCI range information, where the PCI range information includes a PCI range and network information corresponding to ...