ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,532, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOALGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Methods and apparatus for search space switching" was invented by Andres Reial (Hollviken, Sweden), Pramod Jacob Mathecken (Lomma, Sweden), Ali Nader (Malmo, Sweden), Sina Maleki (Malmo, Sweden) and Ajit Nimbalker (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus in a communication system for search space switching are disclosed. A method performed by a network node in a communication system that includes more than one search space group includes generating a downlink control information, DCI, message, and transmitting the...