ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,044, issued on July 21, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Frequency domain resource allocation method and device" was invented by Gen Li (Dongguan, China), Zichao Ji (Dongguan, China) and Siqi Liu (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A frequency domain resource allocation method includes: receiving first downlink control information for scheduling a plurality of carriers, cells, or bandwidth parts; and obtaining frequency domain resources of a terminal on the plurality of carriers, cells, or bandwidth parts according to the first downlink control information, a quantity of bits required...