ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,161, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for secondary node or cell group addition in a communication system" was invented by Yu Pan (Beijing), Lixiang Xu (Beijing) and Hong Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a method for adding a node in a mobile communication system. A method performed by a first node in a mobile communication system is provided. User equipment (UE) is connected to the first node and a second node. The method comprises: sending a message used for requesting or requiring an addition of a third node...