ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,855, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Spectrum-efficient load distribution for split bearers in 5G dual connectivity" was invented by Humberto Jose La Roche (Ocean, N.J.) and Darin Andrew Kaufman (Lenexa, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is described that involves a method for dual connectivity at a network device in a wireless communication system. The method includes determining at a UE a preferred allocation of multiband resources to be allocated by a gNB, sending, by the UE, a request to the gNB that includes data effective to cause the gNB to respond by allocating the pref...