US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 28 for "Downlink frequency hopping communication for reduced capability user equipment" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,477, issued on July 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Downlink frequency hopping communication for reduced capability user equipment" was invented by Chao Wei (Beijing), Wanshi Chen (San Diego), Peter Pui Lok Ang (San Diego), Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.), Jing Lei (San Diego) and Jing Dai (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reduced-capability user equipment (UE) uses frequency hopping to improve downlink (DL) coverage. Specifically, the UE may receive a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) using frequency hopping among a plurality of narrow hands in a wide bandwidth part. A bandwidth of narrow band is not larg...