ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,441, issued on June 23, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Resource determining method and apparatus" was invented by Yifan Xue (Beijing), Lixia Xue (Beijing) and Jian Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communications device determines index values of n first control channel elements (CCEs) occupied by a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidate in a control resource set (CORESET) in a first CCE set and index values of m second CCEs occupied by the PDCCH candidate in the CORESET in a second CCE set. The CORESET is divided into a first second physical time-frequency resource...