US Patent Issued to Charter Communications Operating on June 17 for "Methods and apparatus relating to communicating and/or using timing information to facilitate carrier aggregation and/or dual connectivity" (California, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,202, issued on June 17, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Methods and apparatus relating to communicating and/or using timing information to facilitate carrier aggregation and/or dual connectivity" was invented by Maulik Vaidya (Escondido, Calif.), Ahmad Reza Hedayat (Carlsbad, Calif.), Frank Azcuy (Miami), Amitav Mukherjee (Elk Grove, Calif.) and Marcus Maranhao (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A master node (MN) communicating with a UE using resources of a first band of unlicensed spectrum sends an addition request to a selected secondary node, to request resources for supporting the U...