ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,749, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Activation/deactivation of carriers and carrier frequencies" was invented by Feng Xie (Shenzhen, China), Fei Wang (Shenzhen, China), Hanchao Liu (Shenzhen, China) and Yan Xue (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, apparatus and methods for wireless communication are described. One example method includes receiving, by a wireless device, a higher layer message carrying a radio configuration information that provides multiple mappings between one carrier and multiple carrier frequencies, wherein the higher layer message is received at or above a radio ...