ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,423, issued on June 23, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Enhancing handover performance using radio resource control diversity" was invented by Yuxin Wei (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Hideji Wakabayashi (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Shinichiro Tsuda (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Brian Alexander Martin (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station for a mobile telecommunications system has circuitry, which is configured to communicate with at least one user equipment and at least another base station. The circuitry is further configured to configure a radio resource control message for radio re...