ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,249, issued on July 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Bandwidth part switching techniques for network power savings" was invented by Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego), Marwen Zorgui (San Diego), Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego) and Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of parameters associated with a temporary bandwidth part (BWP) switch from a first BWP to a second BWP. The parameters may include a time duration for the temporary BWP switching procedure, a network antenna configuration for th...