ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,828, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Intellectual Ventures II LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Communicating over multiple radio access technologies (RATS)" was invented by Haris Zisimopoulos (London), Chandrika K. Worrall (Newbury, Great Britain) and Alan Edward Jones (Calne, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) is configured to communicate, using a first radio access technology (RAT) having a first paired spectrum, wherein the first paired spectrum has a first frequency for downlink and a second frequency for uplink. The UE is further configured to transmit, using the first radio access technology (RAT), ...