ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,498, issued on March 17, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Downlink quality improvement method and apparatus" was invented by Hiroaki Takano (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises processing circuitry configured to communicate with a base station using a millimeter-wave frequency band; receive a reference signal transmitted from the bases station; measure, based on the reference signal, a serving cell quality; and trigger a report in a case that a criterion for the serving cell quality is met. The criterion includes an offset value with a predetermined value for the millimeter-wave frequency b...