US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporaton of America on Nov. 3 for "User equipment and scheduling node" (Japanese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,780, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporaton of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"User equipment and scheduling node" was invented by Quan Kuang (Langen, Germany), Ayako Horiuchi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a UE, a scheduling node, and methods for a UE and for a scheduling node. The UE comprises circuitry which, in operation, monitors a first time or frequency resource for a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) on a first beam, and a transceiver which, in operation, receives a signal initiating switching from the first be...