ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,957, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Failure handling for secondary cell" was invented by Fangli Xu (Beijing), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Clive E. Rodgers (Palo Alto, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Saratoga, Calif.), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Yuqin Chen (Beijing), Yushu Zhang (Beijing) and Zhibin Wu (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) is connected to a wireless network and operates in a carrier aggregation (CA) state that includes a first connection to a primary cell and a second connection to a secondary cell...