ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,490, issued on July 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Fast secondary cell activation with temporary reference signals" was invented by Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (San Diego), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Weidong Yang (San Diego) and Yushu Zhang (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) configured to receive secondary cell (SCell) activation configuration information from a first cell, receive a medium access control (MAC) control ...