ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,739, issued on April 29, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"User equipment, base station, and communication method" was invented by Liqing Liu (Sakai, Japan), Shohei Yamada (Sakai, Japan) and Hiroki Takahashi (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method by a user equipment (UE) is described. The method includes receiving, from a base station, system information including a first configuration of a first initial uplink (UL) BWP and a second configuration of a second initial UL BWP wherein the second configuration includes a first RRC parameter, the first RRC parameter configures a cell-specific physical uplink control...