ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,126, issued on June 16, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"User equipment for communication with one or more wireless network nodes over a wireless network simultaneously using component carrier groups" was invented by Thomas Haustein (Berlin), Paul Simon Holt Leather (Berlin-Schlachtensee, Germany), Mathis Schmieder (Berlin), Ramez Askar (Berlin), Roya Ebrahim Rezagah (Berlin) and Jasmina McMenamy (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "User equipment and methods for communication over a wireless network are described. According to one embodiment, the user equipment is conf...