US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on July 14 for "Reducing handover interruption time using sidelink communication" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,442, issued on July 14, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Reducing handover interruption time using sidelink communication" was invented by Ahmad Awada (Munich), Berthold Panzner (Munich) and Stepan Kucera (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for reducing handover interruption time using sidelink communication are provided. For example, the handed-over (remote) user equipment may exchange uplink and downlink data with the target cell via the additional or assisting link to another relay user equipment while the remote user equipment performs the ran...