ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,743, issued on March 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Data collection enhancements for secondary cell groups" was invented by Rajeev Kumar (San Diego), Punyaslok Purkayastha (San Diego), Shankar Krishnan (San Diego), Xipeng Zhu (San Diego), Ozcan Ozturk (San Diego), Aziz Gholmieh (Del Mar, Calif.) and Gavin Bernard Horn (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some examples, a user equipment (UE) may support dual connectivity. That is, the UE may establish communications with a master node and a secondary node of a wireless communicati...