US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on Nov. 18 for "Apparatus and methods for secondary cell (SCell) enhancements in wireless communications" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,771, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Apparatus and methods for secondary cell (SCell) enhancements in wireless communications" was invented by Jialing Liu (Palatine, Ill.), Weimin Xiao (Hoffman Estates, Ill.) and Qian Cheng (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for triggering activation of a secondary cell (SCell) and activating the SCell is provided. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a gNB, a SCell activation command indicating the UE to activate a SCell for communications between the UE and the gNB on the SCell, and receive a reference sign...