US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Jan. 20 for "Mutual information based control channel candidate pruning" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,346, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Mutual information based control channel candidate pruning" was invented by Shay Landis (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Ran Berliner (kfar Aviv, Israel), Peer Berger (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Yevgeny Zagalsky (Karmey Yosef, Israel), Eitan Yerushalmi (Tel Aviv, Israel) and David Jacobian (Herzliya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects relate to mechanisms for mutual information (MI)-based physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidate pruning. A UE may receive a plurality of PDCCH candidates in a search space. Each of the PDCCH candidates includes a demodulation r...