ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,825, issued on March 24, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Inter-system mobility in integrated wireless networks" was invented by John L. Tomici (Southold, N.Y.), Michael F. Starsinic (Newtown, Pa.) and Qing Li (Princeton Junction, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is disclosed for providing inter-system mobility in integrated LTE and WiFi systems. A control plane interface, referred to as the S1a-C interface, is defined between a trusted WLAN access network (TWAN) and a mobility management entity (MME) comprised in an LTE wireless access network. A user plane interface, referred to as...