ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,031, issued on March 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Downlink control signaling for multicast and unicast communications" was invented by Aris Papasakellariou (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for downlink control signaling for multicast and unicast communications. A method includes receiving information for first search space sets and for second search space sets, and a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) providing a downlink control information (DCI) format. The DCI format provides an indication for receptions of PDCCHs during an active time of a next D...