ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,038, issued on June 17, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, and communication method" was invented by Tomoki Yoshimura (Sakai, Japan), Shoichi Suzuki (Sakai, Japan), Toshizo Nogami (Sakai, Japan), Wataru Ouchi (Sakai, Japan), Taewoo Lee (Sakai, Japan) and Huifa Lin (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for a terminal apparatus are disclosed, comprising: receiving a transmission band configuration, wherein the transmission band configuration is provided by an initial downlink bandwidth part (DL BWP) in case that at least one predetermined condition is satisfied, the tr...