ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,730, issued on April 29, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Resource allocation in unlicensed bandwidth part" was invented by Chih-Hsiang Wu (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Kao-Peng Chou (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Allocating resources to user devices in a base station includes transmitting, to a user device, indications of a first time-frequency resource including a first frequency sub-band within a bandwidth part allocated in an unlicensed spectrum and a second time-frequency resource including a second frequency sub-band within the bandwidth part, performing a channel access procedure on the first channe...