ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,932, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Dynamic receiver chain allocation" was invented by Zae Yong Choi (San Jose, Calif.), Peter Pui Lok Ang (San Diego), Ruhua He (San Diego), Yash Pathak (Erie, Colo.), Yuanning Yu (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Chitaranjan Pelur Sukumar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a network node, a message configuring a group of component carriers (CCs). The method also includes allocating, to each CC of the group of CCs based on receiving the message configuring the group of CCs, one o...