US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on June 23 for "Efficient use of physical and logical resources in dual connectivity" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,485, issued on June 23, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Efficient use of physical and logical resources in dual connectivity" was invented by Chih-Hsiang Wu (Taoyuan City, Taiwan) and Ching-Jung Hsieh (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio access network (RAN) manages resources associated with a user equipment (UE) operating in dual connectivity (DC) with a master node (MN) and a secondary node (SN) in accordance with an initial configuration of a radio connection between the UE and the RAN (1102). The RAN detects that traffic of the UE is inactive on a radio bearer via which the UE communica...