ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,867, issued on April 8, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"System and method for utilizing overlapping component carriers" was invented by Antti Immonen (Helsinki), Mehdi Alasti (Reston, Va.), Siddhartha Chenumolu (Broadlands, Va.) and Abdulrauf Hafeez (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A new radio base station establishes a first and a second component. The first and second component carrier overlap each other. The base station transmits first synchronization signal blocks on the first component carrier. The base station transmits second synchronization signal blocks on the second component carrier interl...