ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,281, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Method and device for reporting direct current carrier location, terminal device, and network device" was invented by Shukun Wang (Dongguan, China) and Jinqiang Xing (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reporting a Direct Current (DC) carrier location includes: a terminal device reports at least one piece of DC carrier location information, where each of the at least one piece of DC carrier location information is associated with N cells and N bandwidth parts (BWPs), and N is a positive integer. The...