US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 9 for "Sidelink bandwidth part timer based on active state" (New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,041, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sidelink bandwidth part timer based on active state" was invented by Qing Li (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may start a sidelink bandwidth part (BWP) timer with a duration that is based at least in part on a timing of a sidelink discontinuous reception active state of the first UE. The first UE may switch to a first sidelink BWP for the duratio...