ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,940, issued on June 16, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Methods and devices for time-frequency resource configuration" was invented by Wei Gou (Shenzhen, China), Xianghui Han (Shenzhen, China), Xingguang Wei (Shenzhen, China) and Kai Xiao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, methods and apparatuses for time-frequency resource configuration can include a wireless communication node configuring a first bandwidth part (BWP) in frequency domain. The wireless communication node can configure at least a first subband BWP within the first BWP, and at least one specific type of symbols for the first subband B...