US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 12 for "Default downlink or uplink beam for downlink control channel with repetition configuration" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,162, issued on May 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Default downlink or uplink beam for downlink control channel with repetition configuration" was invented by Fang Yuan (Beijing), Yan Zhou (San Diego), Mostafa Khoshnevisan (San Diego) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a wireless network, a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) may be transmitted in multiple repetitions, which may cause ambiguity in cases where a user equipment (UE) has to determine a default downlink or uplink beam to receive or transmit a data channel. Accordingly, in cases where a UE receives a PDCCH associated with a repet...