ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,653, issued on May 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Measurement gap sharing for L1/L2 based mobility and L3 based mobility" was invented by Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Qiming Li (Beijing), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Manasa Raghavan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xiang Chen (Campbell, Calif.), Yang Tang (San Jose, Calif.) and Yushu Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) is configured to perform layer 1 (L1), layer 2 (L2) and layer (3) mobility operations. The UE determines a measurement gap sharing s...