ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,659, issued on June 9, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods for unlicensed resource selection" was invented by J. Patrick Tooher (Montreal), Paul Marinier (Montreal) and Ghyslain Pelletier (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses are described herein for accessing an unlicensed spectrum using portions of a carrier's bandwidth (BW). For example, a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) may access a serving cell through an initial bandwidth part (BWP). The WTRU may be configured with a plurality of BWPs within an unlicensed frequency spectrum. The WTRU may then determine a...