ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,479, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Fast cell search and neighbor measurement exploiting carrier aggregation enabled RF front-end" was invented by Sajal Kumar Das (Bangalore, India), Satyajit Kumar Dutta (Bangalore, India) and Har Yash Bahadur (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure presents methods and devices configured to exploit the carrier aggregation (CA) capabilities of a radio frequency (RF) front-end (FE) of a terminal device to perform a frequency scan in cell search operations. Based on the CA options of the RF FE of the terminal device, one or more ta...