ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,476, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Use of FDD SCell to mitigate interference to uplink TDD PCell" was invented by Mochamad Mirza (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a gNodeB (gNB) which determines that interference to an uplink time division duplexing (TDD) carrier between a user equipment (UE) and a PCell of the gNB exceeds a threshold. In response to the determining, the gNB further instructs the UE to move uplink TDD traffic from the uplink TDD carrier to an uplink FDD carrier with an SCell of the gNB. The UE is connected to both the PCell and SCell using carr...