ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,457, issued on May 12, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Bandwidth part activation or deactivation method, sidelink connection release method, and device" was invented by Jing Liang (Dongguan, China) and Xiaodong Yang (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bandwidth part activation or deactivation method includes: determining to activate or deactivate an SL BWP according to one of following: configuration information of a Uu BWP and configuration information of the SL BWP; or receipt of an activation or deactivation indication sent by a network side device or a peer terminal, or receipt ...