ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,016, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Joint bandwidth part switching for a group of UEs" was invented by Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (San Diego), Wei Zeng (San Diego) and Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station may transmit a message to a group of user equipments (UEs), directing the UEs to change their respective bandwidth parts (BWPs). For each of the UEs of the group, the message may include a corresponding new BWP. In response to receiving the message, each UE of the group may switch to the corresponding new bandwidth part. The message may be transmitted as part...