ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,488, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for direct secondary cell activation using temporary reference signals" was invented by Kazuki Takeda (Minato-ku, Japan), Yan Zhou (San Diego), Fang Yuan (Beijing), Tao Luo (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego) and Changhwan Park (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, via a first serving cell, a radio resource control (RRC) message including an indication to activate a second serving cell. The UE may transmit, via the first serving cell in response ...