US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 25 for "Carrier switching with uplink carrier aggregation capability" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,536, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Carrier switching with uplink carrier aggregation capability" was invented by Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego) and Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit a capability message indicating that the UE supports operation in an enhanced uplink carrier aggregation mode for transmission of a first uplink message on a first component carrier overlapping in time with transmission of a second uplink message on a sec...