ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,092, issued on June 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Antenna recycling for carrier aggregation" was invented by Kianoush Hosseini (San Diego), Jing Jiang (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego), Kazuki Takeda (Minato-ku, Japan), Jing Lei (San Diego), Hari Sankar (San Diego) and Li Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit an indication of a capability of the UE to receive downlink transmissions over a plurality of component carriers with a first quantity of antennas. The UE may receive, in accordance with the i...