ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,456, issued on July 8, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Sub-band operations in unlicensed spectrums of new radio" was invented by Mohamed Awadin (San Diego), Lakshmi R. Iyer (King of Prussia, Pa.), Qing Li (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Pascal M. Adjakple (Great Neck, N.Y.), Joseph M. Murray (Schwenksville, Pa.), Yifan Li (Conshohocken, Pa.) and Guodong Zhang (Woodbury, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sub-band (SB) indications and listen-before-talk (LBT) outcomes may be used to adjust communications between devices such as wireless terminals and base stations. For example, a wireless terminal ma...