US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on Feb. 18 for "Operating dual connectivity in an inactive state" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,941, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Operating dual connectivity in an inactive state" was invented by Martino M. Freda (Laval, Canada), Yugeswar Deenoo (Chalfont, Pa.) and Ghyslain Pelletier (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) may operate in a dual connectivity (DC) context. While in a RRC_INACTIVE state, the WTRU may receive a paging message from a first cell, which may be associated with a master cell group (MCG). The paging message may indicate that the WTRU is to respond to the paging message on another cell. Also, or alternati...