ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,011, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Cell access method and apparatus" was invented by Jinping Hao (Shanghai), Yinghao Jin (Boulogne Billancourt, France) and Rui Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example cell access methods and apparatus are described. In one example method, a terminal device receives a first message in a cell of a first carrier. The first message includes remaining minimum system information (RMSI) of a cell of a second carrier and a first indication, and the first indication indicates information about a first bandwidth part (BWP). The terminal device ...