ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,881, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Orange (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Transmission of signalling information" was invented by Raphael Visoz (Chatillon Cedex, France) and Eric Hardouin (Chatillon Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for transmitting signalling information from a base station to at least two terminals associated with the base station. The method includes transmitting at least two physical unicast control channels each intended for one of the at least two terminals, each physical unicast control channel carrying a unicast control message carrying transmission parameters intended to be used for ...