ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,049, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Control information transmission method" was invented by Juan Zheng (Beijing), Chaojun Li (Beijing), Yongqiang Fei (Shenzhen, China) and Hailong Hou (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology of this application provides a control information transmission method, so that sizes of different downlink control information (DCI) can be aligned, thereby reducing types of DCI sizes and reducing power consumption when a terminal detects DCI. The method includes a terminal device detecting first DCI in a first search space, where the first DC...