ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,033, issued on June 30, was assigned to SPREADTRUM COMMUNICATIONS (SHANGHAI) Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Cell handover method and apparatus" was invented by Yun Deng (Shanghai) and Wei Fan (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cell handover method and apparatus are provided. The method applied to a first base station includes: transmitting a handover request message, wherein the handover request message includes a capacity indication message of a pre-configuration parameter; receiving a handover request acknowledgement message, wherein the handover request acknowledgement message includes the pre-configuration parameter, and a capacity ...