ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,088, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Enhanced activation of pre-configured measurement gaps for wireless communications" was invented by Rui Huang (Beijing), Candy Yiu (Portland, Ore.), Meng Zhang (Beijing), Andrey Chervyakov (Maynooth, Ireland) and Hua Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices for activating and deactivating pre-configured measurement gaps in carrier aggregation. A user equipment (UE) device may detect a pre-configured measurement gap configured by a network; detect that the pre-configured measurement gap has been activ...