ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,890, issued on May 5, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Asymmetric channel" was invented by Weihua Qiao (Herndon, Va.), Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), SungDuck Chun (Fairfax, Va.), Peyman Talebi Fard (Vienna, Va.), Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.) and Taehun Kim (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station may receive, from a first wireless device, a first radio resource control (RRC) message indicating that a communication associated with a bearer is asymmetric. The bearer may be associated with a service that needs a symmetric communication. The base station may also send, to the first w...