ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,243, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"PDCCH transmission method and apparatus, and PDCCH receiving method and apparatus" was invented by Xuemei Qiao (Beijing), Yang Liu (Beijing) and Qin Mu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) transmission method, applicable to a base station, includes: transmitting, in multiple slots, PDCCHs to a UE; wherein the PDCCHs in at least two slots of the multiple slots are consecutive in time domain."

The patent was filed on Oct. 14, 2020, under Application No. 18/032,156.

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