ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,276, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Information exchange between the CU-CP and the CU-UP for flexible SCG (DE) activation" was invented by Krzysztof Kordybach (Wroclaw, Poland), Subramanya Chandrashekar (Bangalore, India), Tero Henttonen (Espoo, Finland), Henri Markus Koskinen (Espoo, Finland) and Elena Virtej (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including using master cell group resources for a downlink data transmission to a user equipment, wherein the user equipment is configured with at least one secondary cell group terminated split bearer and a secondary cell group...