ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,786, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Bandwidth part (BWP) partition and sub-BWP hopping" was invented by Jing Dai (Beijing), Chao Wei (Beijing) and Min Huang (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to defining a bandwidth part (BWP) within an operating bandwidth, and sub-BWPs within the BWP, where the sub-BWPs can be used for scheduling frequency-hopping transmissions. As one example, a base station may schedule frequency-hopping transmissions using two or more sub-BWPs. The base station may configure a portion of an operating bandwidth to serve as a BWP used for communica...