ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,455, issued on March 18, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Handling of PDCP version during RRC connection re-establishment procedure" was invented by Oumer Teyeb (Montreal) and Gunnar Mildh (Sollentuna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatus are disclosed for a user equipment. An example method performed by a user equipment includes establishing a connection to a Radio Access Network (RAN) via a first network node. Communications are provided over the connection using Signaling Radio Bearer 1 (SRB1) configured with a New Radio (NR) Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PD...