ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,937, issued on March 24, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Conditional cell reconfiguration initiated by a master node" was invented by Mengjie Zhang (Shenzhen, China), He Huang (Shenzhen, China) and Jing Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In wireless communication, a device may change, add, or handover between providers (e.g. nodes) of network access. This may include a conditional cell addition/change procedure initiated by a master node. In addition, successive cell addition/changes can also be performed. The conditional procedures and/or successive procedures can reduce handover interruption time and...