US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 8 for "Physical downlink control channel with multi-transmission reception points (TRPs)" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,997, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Physical downlink control channel with multi-transmission reception points (TRPs)" was invented by Honglei Miao (Munich) and Markus Dominik Mueck (Unterhaching, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein can enable multi-TRP transmission for PDCCH to achieve diversity gain for the potential benefits to URLLC use cases with challenging reliability/robustness requirements. Specifically, multi-TRP transmission for PDCCH can be performed at different levels as follows: 1. PDCCH with multi-TRP transmission on repetition level; 2. PDCCH with m...