ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,708, issued on July 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for supporting irregular bandwidth channels" was invented by Alexander Sayenko (Munich), Fucheng Wang (Cupertino, Calif.), Camila Priale Olivares (Munich), Elmar Wagner (Taufkirchen, Germany) and Anatoliy S Ioffe (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "User equipment that is capable of filtering for an irregular bandwidth of an allocated channel may send an indication of this capability to a network, which may then configure the channel to a next higher standard channel size, enabling the user equipment to filter this larger channel b...