ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,071, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Bandwidth (BW) adaptation for power saving" was invented by Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego), Gabi Sarkis (San Diego), Wanshi Chen (San Diego) and Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, to techniques for bandwidth adaptation. One example method by a user equipment (UE) includes selecting a first subband of multiple subbands of a bandwidth for communication on a sidelink channel, wherein each subband of the multiple subbands is associated with a configuratio...