ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,712, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for activating and reactivating SCell considering currently activated bandwidth part and bandwidth part configuration information in next-generation mobile communication system" was invented by Donggun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jaehyuk Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Interne...