ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,702, issued on May 5.

"Configuration, activation and deactivation of packet duplication" was invented by Vinay Joseph (Calicut, India), Luis Fernando Brisson Lopes (Swindon, Great Britain), Gavin Bernard Horn (La Jolla, Calif.), Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap (San Diego) and Yu-Ting Yu (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for determining a configuration for packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) duplication. Certain aspects provide a method for wireless communication. The method generally includes determining a PDCP duplication configuration corresponding to at least o...