ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,116, issued on May 5.

"Carrier aggregation SCell new state transition design" was invented by Prasad Kadiri (San Diego) and Umesh Phuyal (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to a method of operating a user equipment (UE) for wireless communication with a network. In some aspects, the UE obtains a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) from a network. The MAC CE may be configured to indicate any one of a plurality of state transition actions for a secondary cell. The UE transitions to a secondary cell dormant state when a state transition action indicated by the MAC CE includes a transitio...