ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,640, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Wireless communication device and method for network controlled beam based handover in NR" was invented by Janne Peisa (Espoo, Finland), Icaro Leonardo J. Da Silva (Solna, Sweden) and Pradeepa Ramachandra (Linkoping, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operation of a wireless communication device to perform handover from a source cell to a target cell in a wireless communication system is provided. The wireless communication device performs (202) a beam tracking procedure for one or more neighbor cells to provide, for each neigh...