ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. RE50,858, issued on April 7, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Methods and arrangements for a mobile communications network" was invented by Mats Fredrik Sagfors (Kyrkslatt, Finland), Magnus Johansson (Gothenburg, Sweden), George Jongren (Sundbyberg, Sweden), Magnus Stattin (Upplands Vasby, Sweden) and Per Johan Torsner (Kyrkslatt, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A procedure for synchronization of re-configuration of RRC procedures between the radio base station and the UE is achieved by associating a new configuration to be used by a UE with an additional UE identity. The UE is normally identified ...