ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,141, issued on May 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Bandwidth part configuration for communication networks" was invented by Liangping Ma (San Diego), Xiao Feng Wang (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego), Ayan Sengupta (San Diego), Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego), Bharat Shrestha (San Diego), Jun Ma (San Diego), Umesh Phuyal (San Diego), Dan Zhang (San Diego), Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.) and Yiqing Cao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may identify a beam used for communicating with a network entity, the beam associated...