ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,345, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to KDDI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Terminal apparatus that efficiently changes connection-target cells, and control method" was invented by Hiroki Takeda (Tokyo), Yanwei Li (Tokyo) and Yoshitaka Takaku (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station sets, to a terminal apparatus, in advance control parameters used when performing communication using, as a primary cell, a cell used as a secondary cell, thereby omitting, when changing the cell from the secondary cell to the primary cell, setting of necessary parameters."

The patent was filed on Nov. 18, 2024, under Application No. 18/950,581.

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