ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,178, issued on June 30, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Method of intra-next-generation-node-B mobility" was invented by Sankaran Balasubramaniam (Bangalore, India), Subramanya Chandrashekar (Bangalore, India), Raghuram Reddy Krishnamurthy (Bangalore, India) and Suresh P Nair (Estero, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for a method of mobility between distributed units with a local control plane are provided. For example, a method can include detecting, at a target distributed unit, a handover based on an indication from a source distributed unit a...