ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,166, issued on July 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Conditional handover between direct and sidelink path switch" was invented by Peng Cheng (Beijing), Karthika Paladugu (Hyderabad, India) and Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a signal indicating respective execution conditions for a conditional handover (CHO) procedure for each of one or more candidate handover groups, the one or more candidate handover groups comprising a candidate cell group and a candidate relay group, and each can...