ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,323, issued on March 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for controlling timer" was invented by Junren Chang (Beijing), Ning Dong (Beijing), Zhenzhen Cao (Beijing) and Baokun Shan (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for controlling a timer are disclosed. In the method, after user equipment activates a first bandwidth part in response to a first message, the user equipment controls a target timer to perform timing based on a unit time length of a second bandwidth part to optimize the timer in a BWP scenario."

The patent was filed on Oct. 2, 2020, und...