ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,770, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Measurement relaxation method and apparatus, terminal, and network-side device" was invented by Yanliang Sun (Dongguan, China), Li Chen (Dongguan, China) and Wei Bao (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A measurement relaxation method includes determining, by the terminal based on a measurement result for each of at least one cell group, a low mobility state determination criterion, and a cell center determination criterion, a low mobility state determination result and a cell center determination result for each of the at least on...