US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 12 for "Linked physical downlink control channel candidate rules" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,161, issued on May 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Linked physical downlink control channel candidate rules" was invented by Mostafa Khoshnevisan (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may monitor for downlink control information (DCI) among a plurality of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidates that are associated with each other, the plurality of PDCCH candidates including at least a first PDCCH candidate in a first transmission time pe...