ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,579, issued on July 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Multiple bandwidth operation" was invented by Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego), Wanshi Chen (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego) and Hao Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. In one method, a wireless device receives a broadcast of a first message including an indication of a first bandwidth value; receives, based on the first bandwidth value, a second message including an indication of a second bandwidth value; and receives downlink transmissions based on the second bandwidth val...