ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,929, issued on May 19, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Uplink transmission switching for intra-band noncontiguous uplink carrier aggregation" was invented by Fucheng Wang (Cupertino, Calif.), Anatoliy S Ioffe (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ankit Bhamri (Haar, Germany) and Haitong Sun (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication network schedules multiple components carriers on a same frequency band to user equipment (UE) for transmitting wireless signals. The network may indicate to the UE when to use each carrier, and the UE my switch between transmitting on each carrier. The UE may transmit multip...