ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,580, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for frequency hopping for control channels for devices with reduced capabilities" was invented by Yuantao Zhang (Beijing), Yingying Li (Beijing), Hongmei Liu (Beijing), Zhi Yan (Beijing) and Haiming Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present application are directed to a method and apparatus for frequency hopping for control channels for devices with reduced capabilities. The method may include: receiving configurations of a plurality of bandwidth parts (BWPs); receiving a configuration of control channel offset...