ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,806, issued on June 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Priority based stand-alone and carrier aggregated frequency band usage" was invented by Tushar Gupta (Hyderabad, India), Sidhanta Ranjan Sahu (Hyderabad, India) and Kedar Patankar (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for priority based stand-alone and carrier aggregated frequency band usage. An example method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes: maintaining a high-priority list (HPL) and a low-priority list (LPL) of frequency bands and combinations of frequency bands that are...