ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,554, issued on March 11, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Systems and methods for radio resource control management in a shared network" was invented by Jianxun Ai (Shenzhen, China), He Huang (Shenzhen, China), Yin Gao (Shenzhen, China), Xiaojuan Shi (Shenzhen, China) and Yuan Gao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to wireless communications and, more particularly, to systems and methods for radio resource control (RRC) connection management in a network sharing configuration, including an RRC resume from an RRC inactive state, and RRC re-establishment. In one embodiment, a...