ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,968, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Random access procedures using multiple active bandwidth parts" was invented by Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.), Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.), Alireza Babaei (Fairfax, Va.) and Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wireless communications using multiple active resources (e.g., bandwidth parts (BWP)) are described. A predetermined rule may be used to determine on which downlink (DL) BWP of multiple active DL BWPs, and/or on which uplink (UL) BWP of multiple act...