ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,483, issued on March 17, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).
"Terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, and communication method for flexible physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) repetitions" was invented by Liqing Liu (Sakai City, Japan), Shohei Yamada (Sakai City, Japan), Hiroki Takahashi (Sakai City, Japan) and Meng Cheng (Sakai City, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes reception circuitry configured to receive, from a base station, PDCCH with a first DCI format scheduling PUSCH repetitions, and a RRC parameter indicating slot format per slot, and control cir...