ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,156, issued on July 22, was assigned to PANTECH Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving activation indicator regarding component carrier in wireless communication system" was invented by Ki Bum Kwon (Seoul, South Korea), Myung Cheul Jung (Seoul, South Korea) and Sung Jin Seo (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for supporting activation/deactivation of serving cells by a base station (BS) in a wireless communication system provides decreased overhead and decreased power consumption for a user equipment (UE). The method includes configuring M supportable serving cells in the ...