ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,438, issued on June 23, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Physical downlink control channel repetition method and apparatus, and user equipment" was invented by Hao Liu (Chang'an Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A physical downlink control channel repetition method and apparatus, and user equipment are provided. The PDCCH repetition method according to embodiments of this application includes: in a case that UE has received information for PDCCH repetition, determining, by the UE, X PDCCH candidates of repetition, X being an integer greater than 1; and executing, by the UE, an overb...