ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,274, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method for configuring guard subcarriers" was invented by Yu Xin (Shenzhen, China), Tong Bao (Shenzhen, China), Jin Xu (Shenzhen, China), Guanghui Yu (Shenzhen, China) and Liujun Hu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to methods and devices for configuring guard subcarriers in transmission subbands to reduce interband interference in a wireless communication network. In one implementation, the method may include determining that a first subcarrier spacing for a first radio frequency transmission band is less than a second subcarr...