ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,292, issued on March 31, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"User equipment synchronization during handover" was invented by Thomas Haaning Jacobsen (Aalborg, Denmark), Troels Emil Kolding (Aalborg, Denmark), Pilar Andres Maldonado (Aalborg, Denmark), Renato Barbosa Abreu (Aalborg, Denmark), Rakash Sivasiva Ganesan (Munich) and Sean Kelley (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved techniques of handover include the source gNB estimating the accuracy of the timing information that the UE may derive from its local clock during and shortly after the HO procedure and exchange this with the target gNB...