ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,626, issued on March 11, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method, a user equipment, and a radio station for optimizing user equipment power consumption on activated secondary cells" was invented by Venkatarao Gonuguntla (Tokyo), Hisashi Futaki (Tokyo), Tetsu Ikeda (Tokyo) and Sadafuku Hayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an apparatus, and a method for optimizing user equipment (UE) power consumption on activated Secondary Cells during dormancy and non-dormancy behavior based on the first configuration and second configuration information as provided by radio station."

The patent was filed...