ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,999, issued on June 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sub-band indication in downlink control information in shared radio frequency spectrum band" was invented by Ananta Narayanan Thyagarajan (Bangalore, India), Jing Sun (San Diego), Kapil Bhattad (Bangalore, India) and Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described where a system bandwidth within a shared radio frequency spectrum band may be divided into multiple sub-bands. A base station may use a fallback downlink control information format to provide a resource grant to a user equipment, ...