ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,117, issued on July 22, was assigned to DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for sending downlink control information, and method and apparatus for processing downlink control information" was invented by Zheng Zhao (Beijing), Meiying Yang (Beijing), Jiaqing Wang (Beijing) and Chen Luo (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method and apparatus for sending downlink control information, and a method and apparatus for processing downlink control information. The method for sending downlink control information provided in the present application includes: determining user grou...