ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,257, issued on March 31, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and device and storage medium" was invented by Zhuang Liu (Shenzhen, China), Yin Gao (Shenzhen, China) and Dapeng Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a communication method and device and a storage medium. A communication method applied to a first network element includes determining a target cell according to the received new radio (NR) light assistance information; and handing a first communication node over to the target cell or paging the first communication node in the target cell."

The patent was filed on Ju...