ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,338, issued on March 31, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Resource configuration for EPDCCH" was invented by Runhua Chen (Plano, Texas) and Ralf Matthias Bendlin (Plano, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for providing both localized and distributed transmission modes for EPDCCH is disclosed, where one EPDCCH comprises of one or multiple CCEs. Localized versus distributed transmission may be defined in terms of the EPDCCH to CCE resource mapping. In a localized transmission CCEs are restricted to be contained within one PRB. In a distributed transmission a CCE spans over multiple PRBs. A UE can...