ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,194, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Improving the quality of service of cell-edge user equipment when served by a power limited base station" was invented by Louis Madier (Nozay, France), Matha Deghel (Massy, France) and Karri Markus Ranta-Aho (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques of determining whether to hand over a user equipment to a new base station include requesting power state information from a neighbouring base to see if the power state of the neighbouring BS is sufficient to serve a UE unable to be served by the current BS due to being in a minimum power mo...