ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,757,221, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Downlink control information format for fields with unchanged values" was invented by Shravan Kumar Reddy Garlapati (San Diego), Wei Yang (San Diego), Alessandro Risso (San Diego), Afshin Haftbaradaran (San Diego), Li Zhang (San Diego) and Jing Jiang (San Diego).

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 UE may receive a format indication of a DCI format that includes one or more changed fields having changed values with respect to a previous DCI and one or more unchanged fields...