ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,047, issued on June 17, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Dual active protocol stack operation for handover and PSCell change" was invented by Chih-Hsiang Wu (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio access network (RAN) for enabling execution of a dual active protocol stack (DAPS) procedure at a UE determines that the UE is to release at least one cell via which the UE communicates with the RAN, prior to executing the DAPS procedure (2402), causes the UE to release the at least one cell (2404), and transmits a command to the UE to execute the DAPS procedure (2406)."

The patent was filed on Feb. 10, ...