ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,678, issued on March 17, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for downlink control information communication and interpretation" was invented by Javad Abdoli (Kanata, Canada) and Zhenfei Tang (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus are provided for wireless communication in which a downlink control information (DCI) is transmitted in a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in a first bandwidth part (BWP). A UE is responsible for determining a starting resource block (RB) for a data transmission allocated by the DCI based on a value of a frequency domain resou...