US Patent Issued to NEC on Oct. 14 for "Method and apparatus for radio link monitoring measurements in a system using bandwidth parts" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,259, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method and apparatus for radio link monitoring measurements in a system using bandwidth parts" was invented by Hisashi Futaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a downlink bandwidth part (BWP) is switched from a first BWP to a second BWP without a change of a cell defining synchronization signal block (SSB), if a reference signal type for Radio Link Monitoring (RLM) is set to an SSB type, a radio terminal (12) continues to use for RLM measurements a first SSB associated with the first BWP after switching of the downlink BWP to the second BWP. This for example enables...