ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,337, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to DISH WIRELESS LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Handover on the fly through automatic neighbor relations (ANR) neighbor discovery process" was invented by Norberto Amaya Gonzalez (Littleton, Colo.) and David Ricardo Bentolila Sapiani (Littleton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described herein for automatically detecting wireless neighbor relationships within a wireless network. While a user device is using a first cell for communications, the user device detects and provides a physical cell identifier for a second cell to a computing device, e.g., the first cell or server. Th...