ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,453, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Base station and user equipment" was invented by Timo Koskela (Oulu, Finland), Sami Hakola (Kempele, Finland), Jorma Kaikkonen (Oulu, Finland), Juha Karjalainen (Oulu, Finland) and Mihai Enescu (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station including at least one processor, and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the base station at least to configure a user equipment, UE, with a bandwidth part associated with a non-serving cell, and with a reference signal associated with the bandwidth part...