ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,559, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Devices and methods for supporting 16-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) in narrow band transmissions" was invented by Gerardo Agni Medina Acosta (Marsta, Sweden), Kazuyoshi Uesaka (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan), Jie Chen (Beijing), Yuan Wang (Beijing) and Bela Rathonyi (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method (100) in a network device. The method (100) includes: transmitting (110) Downlink Control Information, DCI, to a terminal device, the DCI containing information from which a TBS index is deriv...