US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Sept. 23 for "Methods and apparatus for dual connectivity operation in a wireless communication network" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,147, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods and apparatus for dual connectivity operation in a wireless communication network" was invented by Anthony E. Ekpenyong (Houston) and Ralf M. Bendlin (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dual-connectivity for the User Equipment (UE) in a cellular network is performed by monitoring a plurality of cells. During dual-connectivity, the UE may be simultaneously connected to one serving cell for the Control Plane (C-plane) and to another serving cell, controlled by a different eNodeB, for the User Plane (U-plane). In another embodiment, the dual-con...