ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,506, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to DISH WIRELESS L.L.C (Englewood, Colo.).
"Systems and methods for virtual bandwidth parts" was invented by Dhaval Mehta (Aldie, Va.) and Amit Pathania (Herndon, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is creation of a very narrow bandwidth part (BWP), referred to herein as a virtual BWP. The virtual BWP is created within an operating channel that is not supported by 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) current standards (e.g., below 5 MHz). This enables a wireless network to be even more flexible in supporting a variety of use cases. In particular, the network artificially creates a smal...