ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,486, issued on March 17, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).

"Method and apparatus for short PDCCH operation" was invented by Hossein Bagheri (Urbana, Ill.), Ravikiran Nory (Buffalo Grove, Ill.) and Vijay Nangia (Woodridge, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A set of information can be transmitted via a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). First information of the set of information can schedule at least one transmission on a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and during at least one slot. Second information of the set of information can indicate at least one orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM...