ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,212, issued on April 14, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Method and system for mobility management" was invented by Krishna K. Bellamkonda (Flower Mound, Texas) and Jin Yang (Orinda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a mobility management service is provided. The service may evaluate geospatial, performance metric, and neighbor criteria data relating to overlap areas between source cells and candidate target cells. The service may calculate composite values for each candidate target cell and select the candida...