ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,742, issued on March 11, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).
"User equipment and a master E-UTRAN node B" was invented by Takako Hori (Sakai, Japan), Shohei Yamada (Sakai, Japan) and Hidekazu Tsuboi (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station apparatus for communicating with a terminal apparatus transmits a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection reconfiguration request message including a Data Radio Bearer (DRB) configuration to the terminal apparatus. The DRB configuration includes a DRB identity and a Packet Data Convergence Protocol Layer (PDCP) entity configuration corresponding to the DRB identity. PDCP ...