US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on April 14 for "Concurrent connectivity with both 4G and 5G networks for mobile devices" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,328, issued on April 14, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Concurrent connectivity with both 4G and 5G networks for mobile devices" was invented by Gaviphat Lekutai (Kirkland, Wash.) and Venson Shaw (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In 5G Non-Standalone (NSA), to balance the load on 5G users and 4G users effectively, the disclosed technology selects the proper secondary cell group (SCG), when the master cell group (MCG) is provided by 4G infrastructure. E-UTRAN New Radio-Dual Connectivity (ENDC) allows users to connect to a 4G MCG and a 5G SCG (SCG). The technology selects the SCG based on each user...