ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,362, issued on March 17, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Maintaining downlink synchronization for deactivated secondary cell group" was invented by Stefan Wager (Espoo, Finland) and Icaro Leonardo Da Silva (Solna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device can be configured to operate in dual connectivity (DC) with a first node via a first cell group and at least one second node via a second cell group. The communication device can synchronize with the second cell group while the second cell group is in a power saving mode of operation. The communication device can determine tha...