US Patent Issued to MediaTek on June 16 for "Method and apparatus for providing a unified control channel framework in mobile communications" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,966, issued on June 16, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus for providing a unified control channel framework in mobile communications" was invented by Yi-Ju Liao (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Pei-Kai Liao (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Chi-Hsuan Hsieh (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various solutions for providing a unified control channel framework in mobile communications are described. An apparatus receives a first-stage downlink control information (DCI) from a network node. The first-stage DCI indicates first scheduling information associated with a second-stage DCI. Then, the ...