ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,472, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Multiple carrier transmission techniques" was invented by Xingguang Wei (Shenzhen, China), Jing Shi (Shenzhen, China), Xianghui Han (Shenzhen, China), Shuaihua Kou (Shenzhen, China) and Min Ren (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described to facilitate transmission by a communication device on multiple carriers. An example wireless communication method includes receiving, by a communication device, a first set of configurations for M active carriers or a second set of configurations for N bands, and an indication that identifies P carrie...