ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,740, issued on June 10, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Downlink transmission in TDD supporting feNB-IoTs" was invented by Seunghee Han (San Jose, Calif.), Debdeep Chatterjee (San Jose, Calif.) and Qiaoyang Ye (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are generally described herein. The UE may receive, from a gNB, a narrowband physical downlink control channel (NPDCCH) that indicates a number of narrowband internet-of-things (NB-IoT) downlink subframes for a downlink scheduling delay of a narrowband physical downlink sha...