ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,434, issued on June 23, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Downlink control information DCI transmission method and communication device" was invented by Siqi Liu (Dongguan, China) and Zichao Ji (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A DCI transmission method, includes: obtaining a first bit number of first DCI, where the first DCI is SL DCI; determining a third bit number of the first DCI according to the first bit number and a second bit number of second DCI; and performing transmission of the first DCI according to the third bit number."

The patent was filed on Oct. 12, 2022, under App...