ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,936, issued on March 24, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Conditional handover" was invented by Irina-Mihaela Balan (Munich), Istvan Z. Kovacs (Aalborg, Denmark), Ping Yuan (Beijing) and Rafhael Medeiros De Amorim (Aalborg, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to conditional handover. A method comprises: determining, at a first device, an ordered list of target cells for a second device to initiate handover to in order based at least in part on location-related data of the second device, the second device being served in a source cell of the first device; transmi...