ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,072, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Timer-based switching for multiple active bandwidth parts" was invented by Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego), Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, Calif.), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.) and Abdelrahman Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for full-duplex communications in wireless networks. Some implementations more specifically relate to multiple bandwidth parts (BWPs), active concurrently, for communications in a given direction (such as a downlink (DL) direc...