ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,826, issued on May 27, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Secondary cell selection" was invented by Srilatha Ramachandran (Bangalore, India), Afef Feki (Massy, France), Shivanand Kadadi (Bangalore, India) and Claudiu Mihailescu (Massy, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is herein disclosed a network node of a wireless communication system. The network node has means for selecting a first group of cells. Each cell of the first group of cells is a secondary cell, SCell, for carrier aggregation, CA, on a user equipment, UE, of the wireless communication system. The network node has means for obta...