ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,984, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Methods for uplink control channel carrier switching" was invented by Sigen Ye (San Diego), Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (San Diego), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Weidong Yang (San Digeo, Calif.) and Yushu Zhang (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "PUCCH carrier switching at a UE may include decoding an RRC configuration including a time-domain pattern indicating a reference cell and a target PUCCH cell for one or more PUCC...