US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Dec. 16 for "Uplink-only or downlink-only downlink control information mode" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,349, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Uplink-only or downlink-only downlink control information mode" was invented by Yuwei Ren (Beijing), Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.) and Le Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may select a downlink control information (DCI) mode to be used by the UE, wherein the selected DCI mode is one of: a joint DCI mode in which a DCI for an uplink and a DCI for a downlink are monitored jointly, or a separate DCI mode in which one or more of t...