ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,977, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Inter-cell group messages for user equipment operating in multi-connectivity" was invented by Icaro Leonardo Da Silva (Solna, Sweden), Jens Bergqvist (Linkoping, Sweden), Joakim Axmon (Limhamn, Sweden) and Stefan Wager (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for a user equipment, UE, configured for dual connectivity, DC, with a wireless network via a first node arranged to provide a first cell group and a second node arranged to provide a second cell group. Such methods and apparatuses include receiving (1620) a f...