US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on Feb. 24 for "Uplink grant, downlink assignment and search space method and apparatus in carrier aggregation" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,567, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Uplink grant, downlink assignment and search space method and apparatus in carrier aggregation" was invented by Kyle Jung-Lin Pan (Saint James, N.Y.), Jean-Louis Gauvreau (La Prairie, Canada), Philip J. Pietraski (Jericho, N.Y.), Stephen E. Terry (Northport, N.Y.) and Guodong Zhang (Woodbury, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of mapping, indicating, encoding and transmitting uplink (UL) grants and downlink (DL) assignments for wireless communications for carrier aggregation are disclosed. Methods to encode and transmit DL assignme...