ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,255, issued on July 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Physical shared channel design for flexible spectrum integration" was invented by Kianoush Hosseini (San Diego), Mostafa Khoshnevisan (San Diego), Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego) and Jae Won Yoo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A transmitting device may obtain an indication of information for an integrated spectrum channel of a single virtual cell, the integrated spectrum channel comprising a set of subbands that are formed by combining frequency resources from multiple frequency band...