ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,329, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Telecommunications apparatus and methods" was invented by Vivek Sharma (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Yassin Aden Awad (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Yuxin Wei (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Hideji Wakabayashi (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless telecommunication system comprising a terminal device, a first network access node and a second network access node, wherein the first and second network access nodes are configured to support a dual connectivity mode of operation for the terminal device in which the first network access node ac...