ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,328, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for buffer-based new radio dual connectivity setup" was invented by Wei David Huang (Danville, Calif.), Vishwanath Ramamurthi (San Ramon, Calif.) and Xin Wang (Morris Plains, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a device may transmit a buffer monitoring request message, wherein the buffer monitoring request message indicates a threshold time. The device may receive a buffer monitoring response message, wherein the buffer monitoring response message indicates one or more data radio bearers (DRBs) ...