ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,856, issued on May 26, was assigned to DISH WIRELESS LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Inter DU carrier aggregation" was invented by Wahaj Tahir (Parker, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies for inter DU carrier aggregation are disclosed. An example method includes identifying, by a CU, multiple DUs associated with the CU for carrier aggregation. A first subset of the DUs is associated with a first cell and a second subset of the DUs associated with a second cell. The method also includes configuring, by the CU, the DUs to aggregate selected component carriers, and scheduling, by the CU, data transmission across the aggregated sel...