ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,236, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Conditional procedures for adding and/or changing a secondary node (SN)" was invented by Karthika Paladugu (Hyderabad, India) and Ozcan Ozturk (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, to procedures for supporting conditional new radio (NR) secondary node (SN) addition and change by reusing conditional handover (CHO) procedures. In some aspects, the procedures include a method for wireless communications by a master node (MN), comprising identifying a set of candidate cells fo...