ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,729, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for supporting evolving band regulations" was invented by Anatoliy Sergey Ioffe (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Daniel Popp (Munich), Elmar Wagner (Taufkirchen, Germany), Fucheng Wang (Cupertino, Calif.) and Alexander Sayenko (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station may send an indication of frequency subranges supported by the base station to user equipment, which may respond with an indication of the frequency subranges that are also supported by the user equipment. Additionally, a Spectrum Access System (SAS) controller, using environmen...