ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,629, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Method, apparatus and communication device for controlling RRC connection" was invented by Qian Zheng (Chang'an Dongguan, China), Xiaodong Yang (Chang'an Dongguan, China) and Jiamin Liu (Chang'an Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a method, apparatus and communication device for controlling an RRC connection, and falls within the technical field of communications. The method of the present application includes: performing, by a relay user equipment, a first behavior in a case that the first cond...