ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,622, issued on Aug. 25.

"Overlapping downlink control channel and cell-specific reference signal bandwidths" was invented by Kazuki Takeda (Minato-ku, Japan), Jae Ho Ryu (San Diego) and Heechoon Lee (San Diego).

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) receives a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) configuration associated with a first radio access technology (RAT), the PDCCH configuration for a first set of time-frequency resources including one or more control channel elements (CCEs). The UE receives a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) confi...