ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,166, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for path switch in a wireless communication system" was invented by Lianhai Wu (Beijing), Congchi Zhang (Shanghai), Mingzeng Dai (Shanghai), Ran Yue (Beijing) and Jie Shi (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for path switch in a wireless communication system. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method may include: receiving, at a UE, an RRC reconfiguration message from a BS via a source Uu link, wherein the RRC reconfiguration message includes a path s...