ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,675, issued on March 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Uplink carrier switching for wireless devices" was invented by Chenxi Hao (Beijing), Yiqing Cao (Beijing), Bo Chen (Beijing), Peter Gaal (San Diego) and Hao Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some cases, a user equipment (UE) may In support multiple component carriers that may be used to transmit uplink transmissions. One carrier may be used at a time such that the may switch between the carriers based on an uplink transmission schedule. In some cases, switching may be limited by a ...