ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,307, issued on April 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Unlicensed band channel access procedures for reduced user equipment (UE) complexity" was invented by Jae Ho Ryu (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego), Vinay Chande (San Diego) and Hari Sankar (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure include methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable medium for transmitting a capability signal to a network entity, wherein the capability signal indicates whether the UE is capable of supporting an uplink (UL) bandwidth that is equal to or less than a downlink (DL) bandwidth for communication over an unli...