ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,817, issued on June 16, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Mechanism for cell identity management" was invented by Xiang Xu (Nanjing, China), Ilkka Keskitalo (Oulu, Finland), Henri Koskinen (Espoo, Finland), Omer Bulakci (Munich), Guillaume Decarreau (Munich), Hajo Bakker (Eberdingen, Germany) and Oliver Blume (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to mechanism for cell identity management. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a source device obtains identity information of a target device. The source device further obtains mapping...