ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,018, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communications device, communications nodes in a wireless communicaitons network and methods" was invented by Yuxin Wei (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Vivek Sharma (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Hideji Wakabayashi (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Yassin Aden Awad (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a source node of a wireless network for controlling handover of a device from the source node to a target node of the wireless network is provided. The method comprises selecting, by the source node, to handover the device from the...