US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on Aug. 25 for "Carrier aggregation configuration based on power headroom report" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,426, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Carrier aggregation configuration based on power headroom report" was invented by Ming Shan Kwok (Seattle) and Wafik Abdel Shahid (Kenmore, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) can use carrier aggregation to connect to different cells provided by one or more base stations of a telecommunication network. One of the cells can be a primary cell (PCell), while another cell can be a secondary cell (SCell). The UE can send a power headroom report (PHR) that includes both a PCell power headroom indicating an available transmission power assoc...