ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,642, issued on June 24, was assigned to RAKUTEN SYMPHONY INC. (Tokyo).

"Flexible carrier bandwidth handling in wireless communications systems" was invented by Vivek Jha (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, the current subject matter relates to flexible carrier bandwidth handling in wireless communications systems. In some implementations, a first signal at a first one of a plurality of fixed operating bandwidths defined for a cellular network and a second signal at a second one of the plurality of fixed operating bandwidths defined for the cellular network can be received at a first communication device in th...