ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,245, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Intelligent dual-connectivity in 5G non-standalone mode" was invented by Xuan Tuyen Tran (Piscataway, N.J.), Matti Hiltunen (Morristown, N.J.), Slawomir Stawiarski (Carpentersville, Ill.), Yu Zhou (Somerset, N.J.), Gueyoung Jung (Belle Mead, N.J.), Rittwik Jana (Montville, N.J.) and Kaustubh Joshi (Short Hills, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described technology is generally directed towards intelligent dual-connectivity for non-standalone network nodes. Network nodes can report state information to a central controller, such as a radio acces...