ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,276, issued on April 21, was assigned to Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson, Texas).

"Multi-cell scheduling with carrier aggregation" was invented by Irfaan Ahamed Salahuddeen (Acton, Mass.), Vagish Srinivasamurthy (Bangalore, India), Purnima Venkata Kompella (Bangalore, India) and Naveen Shanmugaraju (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station includes at least one remote unit (RU) that exchanges radio frequency (RF) signals with a user equipment (UE) using an air interface. The base station also includes a controller communicatively coupled to the at least one RU. The controller forms first RLC protocol ...