ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,016, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Conditional operations with a suspended radio connection" was invented by Chih-Hsiang Wu (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Teming Chen (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in a first base station for managing a conditional operation related to a user equipment UE includes sending, by processing hardware to the UE, a conditional connection information including at least one of a (i) configuration data related to a second base station in order for the UE to operate in dual connectivity with the first base station and the second base station, or (ii) on...