ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,644, issued on April 29, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Systems and methods for releasing candidate target cell resources in multi-connectivity operation" was invented by Li Yang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for wireless communications are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a master node (MN) determines that a candidate target PScell/SCG in a candidate target secondary node (SN) needs to be released, canceled, or deleted. The candidate target SN is involved in a conditional SN addition or change multi-RAT dual connectivity (MR-DC) procedure of a wireless communication device. The...