ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,974, issued on June 17, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Littleton, Colo.).

"Downlink scheduling across a cellular carrier aggregation" was invented by Mehdi Alasti (Arlington, Va.), Siddhartha Chenumolu (Ashburn, Va.) and Mariam Sorond (Reston, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems and methods for scheduling data transmissions from a base station to user equipment (UE) are presented. Channel quality indicator values that correspond to multiple UE may be determined for multiple carrier components of a cellular network's carrier aggregation. A scheduling matrix may be created that includes instantaneous data transfer ra...