ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,149, issued on May 27, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Connection reestablishment procedure" was invented by Taehun Kim (Fairfax, Va.), Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Jinsook Ryu (Oakton, Va.) and Peyman Talebi Fard (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device communicates, with a first base station, based on a first next hop chaining count (NCC) value. The wireless device receives, from the first base station, a first radio resource control (RRC) message comprising a second NCC value. The wireless device determines a failure of the communicating with the first base station...