ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,073, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Signaling in asynchronous carrier aggregation" was invented by Peng Cheng (Beijing), Masato Kitazoe (Hachiouji, Japan) and Linhai He (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may identify a misalignment between system frame numbers (SFNs) associated with multiple serving cells in an asynchronous carrier aggregation configuration. The UE may select an SFN to use as an input for calculating a transmission parameter associated with communicating with one or more of the serving...