ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,710, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Simultaneous multiple secondary cell (SCell) fast activation" was invented by Qiming Li (Beijing), Yang Tang (San Jose, Calif.), Manasa Raghavan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Xiang Chen (Campbell, Calif.), Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Jie Cui (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Hong He (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments include an apparatus, method, and computer program product for simultaneous multiple secondary cell (SCell) fast activation in a wireless communications system. Some embodiments include a user equipment (UE) ...