ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,994, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Random access on enhanced secondary uplink cell" was invented by Kazuki Takeda (Minato-ku, Japan), Peter Gaal (San Diego) and Wanshi Chen (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 receive a first indication of a first cell associated with a first uplink carrier and a first downlink carrier and a second cell associated with a second uplink carrier, wherein the second cell comprises an uplink-only cell. The UE may receive, via the first downlink carrier of the first cell or...