ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,423, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Packet duplication" was invented by Alireza Babaei (Fairfax, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.), Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.), Yunjung Yi (Vienna, Va.), Youngwoo Kwak (Vienna, Va.), Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.), Kai Xu (Herndon, Va.) and Nazanin Rastegardoost (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device receives configuration parameters indicating a first logical channel of a bearer, configured with duplication, mapped to a first base station distributed unit (DU) and a second logical channel of the bearer mappe...