ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,128, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Cross-carrier scheduling techniques for multiple discontinuous reception groups" was invented by Kazuki Takeda (Minato-ku, Japan), Heechoon Lee (San Diego), Jae Ho Ryu (San Diego), Changhwan Park (San Diego) and Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described, in which a communication device (e.g., a user equipment (UE), a network entity) may perform carrier aggregation, and cross-carrier scheduling provides that a first carrier may provide scheduling information for one or more...