ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,577, issued on July 8, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"BWP handling in idle mode and inactive mode" was invented by Jussi-Pekka Koskinen (Oulu, Finland), Jarkko Koskela (Oulu, Finland) and Tero Henttonen (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for bandwidth part (BWP) handling. Apparatus can receive information on limitation(s) of BWP(s) supported in a cell of the base station and inhibit a terminal from accessing the cell based on limitation(s) of the BWP(s) supported in the cell and limitation(s) of BWP(s) supported by the terminal. App...