ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,720, issued on May 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Secondary cell (SCell) activation in a wireless network for a high speed scenario" was invented by Yuhan Zhou (Santa Clara, Calif.), Qiming Li (Beijing), Shuang Tian (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jie Cui (Santa Clara, Calif.), Rui Huang (Beijing) and Yang Tang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides techniques for activation of a secondary cell by a user equipment (UE) operating in a wireless network. For example, a UE receives a command to activate a secondary cell of the wireless network for wireless communication, and determines w...