ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,497, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Methods and apparatus of two stage downlink control information" was invented by Hao Tang (Shenzhen, China), Jianglei Ma (Kanata, Canada), Xiaoyan Bi (Shenzhen, China), Peiying Zhu (Kanata, Canada) and Wen Tong (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for transmitting and receiving downlink control information (DCI) are provided along with corresponding network devices and apparatus. A first stage DCI is transmitted that explicitly indicates a scheduling information of a second stage DCI. The second stage DCI is transmitted in a fir...