ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,044, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Serving cell activation and deactivation" was invented by Ravikiran Nory (San Jose, Calif.), Ajit Nimbalker (Fremont, Calif.) and Hong Ren (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system and apparatus are disclosed. According to one or more embodiments, a method is performed by a wireless device The method includes: determining an activation or a deactivation of a first serving cell associated with a first physical channel; sending a corresponding Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest, HARQ, acknowledgment, ACK, in a second physical...