ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,412, issued on July 21, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Communication between a UE and wirelessly interconnected base stations" was invented by Jibing Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Erik Stauffer (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first base station communicates with a UE via the first base station and a second base station. The first base station transmits, via a radio interface to the second base station, a configuration for concurrent communication between the UE and a group of base stations including the first base station and the second base station. The first base station communicates, by ...