US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Nov. 3 for "Primary cell switching for network energy saving with multiple carriers" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,815, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Primary cell switching for network energy saving with multiple carriers" was invented by Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.), Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Kai Xu (Herndon, Va.) and Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more first cells may be used as one or more primary cells by a plurality of wireless devices in a first state, such as a non-energy-saving state. A second cell may be used as a group common primary cell by the plurality of wireless devices in a second state, such as an energy-s...