ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,333, issued on July 28, was assigned to Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson, Texas).

"Capacity scheme for multi-RAT dual connectivity" was invented by Shiva Prakash (Bangalore, India), Nandish Chalishazar (Nashua, N.H.) and Devulapalli Venkata Surya Narayana Murthy (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Capacity schemes for Multi-RAT dual connectivity are described herein. For example, a system includes user equipment; a secondary node that communicates with the user equipment through cells in a secondary cell group; and a master node. The master node communicates with the user equipment through cells in a master cell...