ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,338, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"5G new radio mobility enhancements" was invented by Shadi Iskander (Ergolding, Germany) and Tamer Adel Darweesh Hassan Darweesh (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) is configured to receive an inter-frequency measurement configuration comprising a plurality of frequencies, wherein neighbor cells transmit at at least one of the frequencies, the inter-frequency measurement configuration further comprising a priority associated with each of the frequencies, performing the frequency measurements of the neighbor cells according to the inter-fr...