ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,692, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Short physical downlink control channel (SPDCCH) mapping design" was invented by John Camilo Solano Arenas (Dusseldorf, Germany), Niklas Andgart (Sodra Sandby, Sweden) and Laetitia Falconetti (Jarfalla, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, network node and wireless device for receiving and/or mapping a physical downlink control channel, PDCCH, to resource elements of a time-frequency grid are provided in which the PDCCH is mapped to resource elements of the time-frequency grid by configuring resource element groups, REGs, each REG ...