US Patent Issued to Ofinno on May 13 for "Bandwidth part switching and determination of a contention window" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,388, issued on May 13, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Bandwidth part switching and determination of a contention window" was invented by Alireza Babaei (Fairfax, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.), Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.), Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.) and Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station transmits to a wireless device configuration parameters of a first bandwidth part (BWP) and a second BWP of an unlicensed cell. The base station determines a first contention window for a first listen before talk (LBT) procedure for the first BWP. The det...