ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,844, issued on July 14, was assigned to Mavenir Systems Inc. (Richardson, Texas).

"Method to use common signal chain for multiple NB-IOT standalone cells" was invented by Charles Santhosam Lourdu Raja (Bangalore, India) and RadhaKrishna Arvapally (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of processing multiple consecutive Narrowband Internet of Things (NBIOT) cells by a Radio Access Network (RAN) of a mobile network includes one of: a)1) shifting at least one first NBIOT cell relative to an adjacent second NBIOT cell to align all sub carriers of the first and second NBIOT cells to be mutually orthogonal; and a)2) usin...