ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,490, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Reporting supported component carriers for physical downlink control channel monitoring capabilities" was invented by Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Fangli Xu (Beijing), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Weidong Yang (San Diego) and Yang Tang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) reports capabilities to a network. The UE receives a request from a network for radio access capabilities of the UE,...