ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,459, issued on July 1, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Efficient BWP operation for sidelink operation" was invented by Joachim Loehr (Wiesbaden, Germany), Prateek Basu Mallick (Dreieich, Germany) and Karthikeyan Ganesan (Kronberg im Taunus, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for deactivation of a bandwidth part (BWP). A base station may be configured to transmit a first configuration for one or more uplink (UL) BWPs, for a carrier of a serving cell, where at least one UL BWP of the one or more UL BWPs is an active UL BWP associated with a first numerology. ...