ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,173, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method to transmit downlink signaling message on cellular systems for packet transmission and method for receiving the message" was invented by Jae-Heung Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyoung-Seok Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung-Im Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Soo-Jung Jung (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a downlink control information transmitting and receiving method which can maximize the use of limited radio resources by effectively forming an uplink signaling message to be transm...