ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,423, issued on July 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Bandwidth part operation for combination DCI for scheduling multiple cells" was invented by Ruifeng Ma (Beijing), Yuwei Ren (Beijing) and Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for efficient signaling of frequency resources in multiple cells. For example, a single downlink control information (DCI) transmission to a user equipment (UE) may be used to indicate a bandwidth part (BWP) switch to be applied in multiple cells. In some cases, the BWP switch may be into a pre-defined BWP across th...