ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,908, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Selection of different initial bandwidth parts for reduced capability user equipment" was invented by Muhammad Nazmul Islam (Littleton, Mass.), Jing Lei (San Diego) and Peter Gaal (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for a reduced capability (RedCap) user equipment (UE) and supporting cell. The RedCap UE is configured with multiple bandwidth parts (BWPs). A maximum bandwidth of the RedCap UE is lower than a maximum bandwidth of a non-RedCap UEs....