ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,121, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Methods and apparatus for network load balancing optimization" was invented by Hao Chen (Allen, Texas), Zhou Zhou (Allen, Texas), Yan Xin (Princeton, N.J.) and Jianzhong Zhang (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing mobility load balancing includes receiving, at a server, current load data for a plurality of cells of a wireless communication network, selecting, from the plurality of cells, a target cell (s), wherein a value of the current load data for the target cell exceeds a first predefined threshold, and se...