ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,321, issued on March 17, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Carrier aggregation and dual connectivity switching in a cellular network" was invented by Dhaval Mehta (Aldie, Va.), Sourabh Gupta (Ashburn, Va.) and Gurpreet Sohi (Parker, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed towards systems and methods for carrier aggregation and dual connectivity switching in a cellular network (e.g., a 5G network). Example embodiments include systems and methods for: the RAN functions supporting providing measuring and reporting particular items for dynamic carrier aggregation and dual connectivity switching...