ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,350, issued on March 25, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"User equipment and base station apparatus" was invented by Hideaki Takahashi (Tokyo) and Akihito Hanaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment includes a receiving unit configured to receive, from a base station apparatus, information designating a Bandwidth Part (BWP) of a cell, a control unit configured to configure a BWP to be activated, based on a parameter dedicated to the user equipment included in the information, when: the cell is a Special Cell (SpCell) and a configuration by a Radio Resource Control (RRC) is executed; or the cell is a Second...