ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,033, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Communications network and methods with signaling of selective receptivity" was invented by Tomoki Yoshimura (Camas, Wash.) and Zhanping Yin (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless terminal comprises receiver circuitry, processor circuitry, and transmitter circuitry. The receiver circuitry is configured to receive radio transmissions in one or more subbands in a serving cell. The processor circuitry is configured to generate wireless terminal selective receptivity information. The wireless terminal selective receptivity information indicates wheth...