ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,524, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"System and method for uplink and downlink in multi-point communications" was invented by Jialing Liu (Palatine, Ill.), Weimin Xiao (Hoffman Estates, Ill.) and Qian Cheng (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) may receive first configuration information of a carrier of a serving cell, including a first association of a first group of uplink (UL) signals or channels on the carrier in the serving cell with a first UL timing advance group (TAG) of the UE, and second configuration information of the carrier including a s...