ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,706, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Carrier aggregation bandwidth classes with overlapping bandwidth ranges" was invented by Fucheng Wang (Cupertino, Calif.), Anatoliy S Ioffe (Redwood City, Calif.) and Camila Priale Olivares (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aggregated channel bandwidth classes that overlap in frequency are allocated for a fallback group. The fallback group may define an increased or maximum bandwidth of aggregated component carriers as allocated by a network. By enabling the aggregated channel bandwidth classes for a fallback group to overlap in frequency, for an availabl...