ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,575, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Secondary cell activation" was invented by Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Manasa Raghavan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Qiming Li (Beijing), Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (San Diego), Xiang Chen (Campbell, Calif.) and Yang Tang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising: receiving, from a base station (BS), one or more messages comprising: configuration parameters of a plurality of cells, wherein the plurality of cel...