ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,590, issued on April 22, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Methods, apparatus, and systems for fast path switching in wireless communications with user equipment (UE) cooperation" was invented by Hua Xu (Kanata, Canada) and Jianglei Ma (Kanata, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multiple communication paths are established for communications between a User Equipment (UE) and a wireless communication network, before switching between those paths is initiated. Signaling that includes an explicit indication that the UE is to switch between the multiple communication paths is transmitted to and received ...