ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,214, issued on May 13, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Timing of component carriers in multi-carrier wireless networks" was invented by Bengt Lindoff (Bjarred, Sweden), Erik Dahlman (Stockholm) and Stefan Parkvall (Bromma, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms for efficient transmission of large amount of download data from a base station to a user equipment in a multi-carrier that minimizes power consumption on the user equipment are described. When multiple component carriers are to be used to transmit the download data, the base station informs the user equipment. The base station tr...