ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,321, issued on May 13, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Germany).

"Methods and apparatuses for enhancing the reliability and performance of the physical downlink control channel in a wireless communications network" was invented by Marcus Grossmann (Erlangen, Germany), Markus Landmann (Erlangen, Germany) and Sutharshun Varatharaajan (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for enhancing the reliability and performance of the PDCCH in a wireless network. The method performed by a UE comprises: receiving a configuration of search space sets for the PD...