ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,301, issued on May 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques and apparatuses for carrier management" was invented by Chao Wei (Beijing), Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego), Le Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Wanshi Chen (San Diego), Xiao Feng Wang (San Diego) and Hao Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, base station (BS), user equipment (UE), apparatus, and computer program product for wireless communication are provided. A BS and a UE may communicate using a narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) communication system. However, a frequency, time, and/or power associated with transmission of a SIB1-NB on a non-...