ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,092, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Master node, secondary node, and methods therefor" was invented by Hisashi Futaki (Tokyo) and Sadafuku Hayashi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A master node (MN) (1) controls the MN (1) to enable, for a radio terminal (3), dual connectivity using a Master Cell Group (MCG) provided by the MN (1) and a Secondary Cell Group (SCG) provided by a secondary node (SN) (2). The MN (1) sends to the SN (2) a first message related to a modification or release of a configuration or resource in the SN (2) regarding the dual connectivity. The first message explicitly or implicitly in...