US Patent Issued to Apple on June 23 for "Flexible switching between standalone mode and non-standalone mode in carrier aggregation" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,414, issued on June 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Flexible switching between standalone mode and non-standalone mode in carrier aggregation" was invented by Xu Zhao (Edison, N.J.), Xuan Guo (Glen Rock, N.J.) and Mohamed L. Haidara (New Providence, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) is configured to operate in a non-standalone carrier aggregation (NSA CA) mode. The UE is also configured to determine an NSA CA bandwidth (BW) associated with bands being used for the NSA CA mode, determine a standalone carrier aggregation (SA CA) BW associated with bands being used for a SA CA mode after the ...