US Patent Issued to Apple on June 17 for "NR control channel element detections to reduce blind demodulation and decoding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,952, issued on June 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"NR control channel element detections to reduce blind demodulation and decoding" was invented by Wanlun Zhao (San Diego) and Parvathanathan Subrahmanya (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to techniques for reducing blind decoding of downlink control channels in a wireless communication system. The techniques may include determining whether a control channel pilot signal, such as a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) is present within a set of control carrier entities, and accordingly determining whether the downlink control...