ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,415, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Default resource bandwidth and inactivity timer" was invented by Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego), Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, Calif.) and Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may communicate using an initial resource bandwidth as an active bandwidth, wherein the initial resource bandwidth comprises at least a first portion of a bandwidth part (BWP); and switch, based at least in part on a timer exp...