US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on June 16 for "Method and apparatus for carrier assignment, configuration and switching for multicarrier wireless communications" (New York, California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,956, issued on June 16, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method and apparatus for carrier assignment, configuration and switching for multicarrier wireless communications" was invented by Guodong Zhang (Woodbury, N.Y.), Stephen E. Terry (Northport, N.Y.), Jin Wang (Princeton, N.J.) and Lei Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As part of carrier assignment and configuration for multicarrier wireless communications, a single uplink (UL) primary carrier may provide control information for multiple concurrent downlink (DL) carriers. Optionally, control information for each DL carrier may be...