ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,702, issued on June 9, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Access control using uplink resources" was invented by Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.), Alireza Babaei (Fairfax, Va.) and Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. A base station may configure for a wireless device access configurations on different uplink carriers, such as a supplemental uplink carrier and a non-supplemental uplink carrier. Control information may indicate that the wireless devi...