ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,142, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MEDIATEK SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Method and apparatus for cross-carrier scheduling in mobile communications" was invented by Abdellatif Salah (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various solutions for cross-carrier scheduling with respect to user equipment and network apparatus in mobile communications are described. An apparatus may receive a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) on a component carrier (CC) in a PUCCH cell group. The apparatus may receive downlink data on a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) on a CC in the PUCCH cell group scheduled by t...