ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,622, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson, Texas).

"Systems and methods for dual-connectivity split-bearer packet management" was invented by Naveen Shanmugaraju (Bangalore, India), Shiva Prakash (Bengaluru, India), Irfaan Ahamed Salahuddeen (Acton, Mass.) and Shailendra Yadav (Gurgaon, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for dual-connectivity split-bearer packet management are presented. In one embodiment, a dual-connectivity, split-bearer base station, comprises: at least one centralized unit (CU) comprising a CU-CP) and at least one CU-UP; at least one DU coupled to the ...