ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,259, issued on March 31, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods and apparatuses for data forwarding in wireless communications" was invented by Filipe Conceicao (London), Alain Mourad (Ascot, Great Britain) and James Miller (Northport, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and procedures for enhancements to data forwarding for dual active protocol stack handover in wireless communications are disclosed. In an example, a method implemented by a wireless transmit/receive unit for wireless communications includes determining a first point and a second point for time prediction...