ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,169, issued on April 15, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Handover during secondary cell group failure" was invented by Chih-Hsiang Wu (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user device operating in dual-mode connectivity with a master node and a secondary node detects a failure of a secondary cell group associated with the secondary node (1104). In response, the user device suspends an secondary cell group transmission (1106). The user device generates a message related to a status of the SCG for transmission to the MN (1108) and transmitting the message to the MN when the SCG transmission is suspended ...