ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,321, issued on April 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Bearer reconfiguration for SCG activation/deactivation" was invented by Yuqin Chen (Beijing), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Fangli Xu (Beijing), Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) is configured to receive, from a base station of a wireless network, a deactivation indication indicating that a secondary cell group (SCG) of a dual connectivity (DC) wireless communications configuration has been deactivated, receive, from the base station, a remapping indication indicatin...