ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,898, issued on April 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Enhanced dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) in cell groups" was invented by Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.) and Wei Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein may include a special scheduling cell (sSCell) provided for dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS). The sSCell may schedule a primary cell of a master cell group (MCG) or a primary ...