ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,218, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Apparatuses and methods for enabling secondary cell group (SCG) suspension and resumption or primary secondary cell (PSCell) deactivation and activation" was invented by Chun-Fan Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, executed by a User Equipment (UE) communicatively connected to a Secondary Cell Group (SCG) of a mobile communication network, is provided. The method includes the following steps: receiving a first Radio Resource Control (RRC) message or a Media Access Control (MAC) Control Element (CE) including an indicator for suspensio...