ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,012, issued on May 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"FR1 intra-band CA optimization" was invented by Yongle Wu (San Diego), Francesco G. Gatta (San Diego), Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov (San Diego), Hari Sankar (San Diego), Christos Komninakis (Solana Beach, Calif.) and Michael Lee McCloud (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A UE may attempt, based on a first mode, to identify a first opportunity within a preconfigured time period for a measurement associated with at least one SCC when the at least one SCC is deactivated at the UE and the measurement associated with the at least one SCC is due based on a scheduling. B...