ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,370, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Secondary cell group activation/deactivation in split node architecture" was invented by Liwei Qiu (Taby, Sweden), Nianshan Shi (Jarfalla, Sweden) and Pontus Wallentin (Linkoping, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include methods for a first node that is configured for dual connectivity with a user equipment (UE) together with a second node of a wireless network. One of the first and second nodes provides a secondary cell group (SCG) for the UE. Such methods include a first unit of the first node receiving an indication of cha...