ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,211, issued on April 15, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Method and apparatus for dynamic power sharing and managing the maximum power for a secondary carrier" was invented by Colin Frank (Park Ridge, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Managing use of dynamic power sharing for dual carrier operation is provided. An allowed tolerance is identified (802) corresponding to a maximum expected possible deviation between a power level at which the user equipment requests that a communication via the master cell group be set and an actual power level at which the corresponding communication via the master cell grou...