ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,089, issued on June 16, was assigned to John Mezzalingua Associates LLC (Liverpool, N.Y.).

"Method and system for exchanging secondary cell information for carrier aggregation" was invented by Stephen Turner (Mecahnicsville, Va.), Randal Eye (Richmond, Va.) and Giovanni Ferri (Pesaro, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 5G gNodeB has a Centralized Unit (CU) and one or more Distributed Units (DU). Each of the one or more DUs has a cell topology information that it sends to the CU so that the CU has information for each DU for each of the DU's cells, including which cells are available to each primary cell for carrier aggregation. W...