ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,733, issued on May 5, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Inter-rat measurement gap configuration" was invented by Ling Xie (Beijing), Zhanyi Liu (Beijing), Yongle Wu (San Diego), Yong Li (San Diego), Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam (San Diego), Jie Mao (Beijing), Scott Hoover (Del Mar, Calif.) and Xuqiang Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Enhanced inter-RAT and measurement gap operations are disclosed. In one aspect, a device may generate a customized measurement gap for monitoring control signals of another network for inter-RAT procedures. In another aspect, a device may modify, such as extend or shift, a network mea...