ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,677, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Channel state information (CSI) reporting techniques for secondary cell (SCELL) activation" was invented by Jae Ho Ryu (San Diego), Kazuki Takeda (Tokyo), Changhwan Park (San Diego) and Hari Sankar (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses that support channel state information (CSI) reporting techniques for secondary cell (SCell) activation. A user equipment (UE) may receive one or more medium access control-control elements (MAC-CEs) that indicate a secondary cell (SCell) activation command, an aperiodic tra...