ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,427, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Generating filtered results in user equipment-triggered lower layer-based handover" was invented by Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Fangli Xu (Beijing), Haijing Hu (Cupertino, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.) and Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Performing a UE-triggered lower layer-based handover may include performing measurements of source gNB CSI-RS samples associated with a source gNB. Measurements of target gNB CSI-RS samples associated with a target gNB may be performed, wherei...