ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,971, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Signaling uplink carrier selection information" was invented by Ming Yang (San Diego), Kausik Ray Chaudhuri (San Diego) and Juan Montojo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects relate generally to dynamic uplink carrier selection for uplink control information (UCI) multiplexing. A user equipment may signal uplink carrier selection information to support informed carrier selection while decreasing the occurrence of switching gaps associated with signalling the uplink carrier selection information. The UE may transmit, on one carrier, uplink carrier qu...