ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,979, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for accessing multiple radio access technology spectrum sharing" was invented by Jing Lei (San Diego), Jing Jiang (San Diego), Kianoush Hosseini (San Diego) and Kangqi Liu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for multi-RAT spectrum sharing (MRSS) for network access procedures. MRSS may provide common resources for initial access information for each of two or more RATs. In some aspects, an initial bandwidth part (BWP) configuration may be provided for a MRSS cell, and...