ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,327, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Buffer threshold for secondary cell group activation" was invented by Sitaramanjaneyulu Kanamarlapudi (San Diego), Ozcan Ozturk (San Diego) and Punyaslok Purkayastha (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may generate a buffer status report (BSR) in response to a data radio bearer (DRB) for a secondary cell group (SCG) being a split DRB, the SCG being deactivated, and a buffer size satisfying a threshold for transmitting the BSR to activate th...