ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,471, issued on March 17, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Methods, apparatus and systems for performing multi-radio access technology carrier aggregation" was invented by Paul Marinier (Brossard, Canada), Diana Pani (Montreal) and Ghyslain Pelletier (Montreal, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of managing carrier aggregation for a multi-radio access technology (RAT) wireless transmitter/receiver unit (WTRU) is disclosed. The method may include: receiving, by the WRTU over a primary channel associated with a RAT of a first type, provisioning information for provisioning a supplementa...