ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,829, issued on June 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Disaggregated network entity signaling for network energy savings conditional handover" was invented by Shankar Krishnan (San Diego), Naeem Akl (Bridgewater, N.J.) and Sherif Elazzouni (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The described techniques provide for a central unit (CU) and a distributed unit (DU) to communicate information for a network energy savings (NES) related conditional handover (CHO). For example, the CU, which may configure one or more user equipments (UEs) for the CHO, ma...