ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,332, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Adding of a secondary base station based on a backhaul interface" was invented by Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.) and Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A second base station transmits a message to a first base station. Based on the second base station having a backhaul interface to a third base station, the message includes parameters of one or more cells of the third base station. The second base station transmits, to the first base station, a request to add the first base station as a secondary base station. The second base station receives, from t...