ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,497, issued on March 17, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Physical downlink control channel transmission method and related apparatus" was invented by Fengwei Liu (Chengdu, China), Minghui Xu (Shenzhen, China) and Jiayin Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A physical downlink control channel transmission method and a related apparatus are provided. The transmission method includes: A network device sends a resource configuration, where the resource configuration indicates a time domain resource used by the network device for PDCCH sending. The network device sends a PDCCH of a first termina...