ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. RE50,723, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to PEGASUS WIRELESS INNOVATION LLC (Ashburn, Va.).

"Buffer state report transmission method and device therefor" was invented by Sung-Pyo Hong (Seoul, South Korea) and Woo-Jin Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods and apparatuses for transmitting a buffer status report in carrier aggregation environment. The method may include receiving, from a base station, high layer signaling including information for configuring data duplicate transmission using carrier aggregation, configuring a plurality of radio link control (RLC) entities including a first RLC entity an...