ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,128, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Telecommunications apparatus and methods" was invented by Brian Alexander Martin (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Yuichi Morioka (Basingstoke, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless telecommunications system in which downlink communications are made using a radio interface that spans a system frequency bandwidth (host carrier) and supports at least some communications from a base station to least some terminal devices within a plurality of restricted frequency bands (virtual carriers) which are narrower than and within the system frequency bandwidth. ...