ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,894, issued on July 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Carrier specific scaling factor for deactivated PSCell" was invented by Qiming Li (Beijing), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Manasa Raghavan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xiang Chen (Campbell, Calif.), Yang Tang (San Jose, Calif.) and Yushu Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) is configured to simultaneously connect to a primary cell (PCell) serving a primary component carrier (PCC), a primary secondary cell (PSCell) serving a primary secondary component carrier (PSCC) and at least...