ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,862, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Transmission and reception of downlink control information" was invented by Yukai Gao (Beijing) and Gang Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices and computer readable media for transmission and reception of DCI in a single carrier based downlink control channel. A method of communication comprises receiving, at a terminal device, a reference signal for a downlink control channel associated with the terminal device via a first time-frequency resource allocated for transmission of the reference signal; deter...